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Illinois Economic Review

The latest Illinois Economic Review, prepared by IGPA's Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), shows Illinois gained 6,500 jobs in February 2012, compared with 3,900 job gains in January 2012. Illinois has added 32,000 jobs since February 2011. The Illinois official unemployment rate fell for the sixth consecutive month, dropping -0.3 to 9.1 percent.

The latest Illinois Economic Review, prepared by IGPA's Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, shows Illinois gained just over 29,000 jobs between Jan. 2011 and Jan. 2012. However, the state still has 306,000 fewer jobs now than it did in Dec. 2007. Read the full review.

Photo of Help Wanted signDec. 19, 2011 _ Illinois job growth since the end of the 2007-2009 recession has new exceeded 100,000 , according to the Illinois Economic Review, published by IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory.  Read the latest review.

Photo of Help Wanted signJob growth in Illinois remains sluggish and forecasts from IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory do not indicate major improvement anytime soon, according to the latest Illinois Economic Review. Read the Review.

Illinois lost 7,200 jobs in June, the first month of losses since December 2010, according to the Illinois Economic Review. However, the review, published by IGPA's Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, indicates that Illinois' job growth remains positive relative to a year ago.  Read the entire review.

Total non-farm jobs are expected to increase by a range of 50,000 to 122,000 over the course of the next year, according to the Illinois Economic Review published by IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory. The latest review shows the state added 9,000 jobs in April. Read the full review.

The new Illinois Economic Review, published by IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory, shows continued signs of slow recovery in the state.

The outlook for people seeking work in Illinois continues to improve slowly, according to an analysis of employment produced by IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory.

The Illinois Economic Review, a publication of IGPA's Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, indicates that the labor market in Illinois continues to slowly improve. Illinois had 46,300 more jobs in December 2010 than it had a year earlier.  

 Illinois continues to show slow recovery from the recession and accompanying sky-high unemployment, according to the latest edition of the Illinois Economic Review.  The Review, produced by IGPA's Regional Economic Applications Laboratory, shows the state gained about 8,000 jobs in October and shows that the state added 14,400 jobs between October 2009 and October 2010.  Read the full review.

  

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The State of the Illinois Economy