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Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin continues to push for an extension of unemployment benefits. He says it’ll be the first priority when the U.S. Senate…
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With national unemployment at its lowest level since the start of the Great Recession, the numbers keep going the wrong way in several parts of…
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Illinois has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation. And Decatur has the highest in the state.Caterpillar announced hundreds of layoffs this…
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In a sluggish Illinois economy, one group is finding it surprisingly difficult to find work: veterans of post-9/11 conflicts.Because the federal…
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You say tomato. I say tomahto. What the governor calls efficiency in state government, a labor union calls a crisis in staff erosion.Gov. Rod Blagojevich…