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.

U.S. Steel is cutting up to 1,000 jobs and selling parts of its Granite City plant. The move comes as Madison County employment remains down over 5,600 jobs since the pandemic.

Hedge-fund firm Citadel is moving its headquarters to Miami. Citadel CEO Ken Griffin said many employees have asked to move out of Illinois.

One of the state’s biggest employers is relocating their headquarters to Irving, Texas. A decade ago Caterpillar’s CEO warned state leaders of business losses unless they balanced the budget, controlled workers’ comp costs and cut taxes. He was ignored.

Although Illinois hosts corporate headquarters of many large companies, its economy lags in blue-collar job opportunities.