Illinois only added 3,600 jobs in October, a drastic drop in job growth coming amid persistent inflation and rising recession fears. Unemployment led the nation.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is claiming his administration has fought for Illinois families. Since Pritzker took office, Illinois’ unemployment rate is worse compared to other states.

Illinois’ lagging pandemic recovery continued across its cities in July. Only 1 metropolitan area has recovered from the pandemic.

Only Bloomington has recouped early 2020 job losses, which is bad news for Illinois’ lagging economy as recession fears increase.

Illinois’ job opening rate declined 1.5 percentage points in May. That’s not a good way to enter a potential recession.

Illinois’ employment recovery continued in June, but the state is still missing one in seven jobs lost during the pandemic.

Illinois is one of the states with the most to gain from the continued national jobs recovery, but could be hit harder than other states by a recession.

Despite a full year of job gains, all Illinois metropolitan areas are missing jobs since the pandemic began and the recovery stalled. While May brought job gains statewide, only eight metro areas saw gains while seven saw losses.

Illinois’ employment recovery continued in May, but the state is still missing nearly one in six jobs lost during the pandemic.

Illinois’ employment recovery continued in April, but the state is still missing almost one in five jobs lost during the pandemic.