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Jun 25, 2009 1:07 pm US/Central

Unemployment Rising Again In Illinois Metro Areas

CHICAGO (AP) ― Unemployment went up in most of Illinois' metropolitan areas in May.
Joblessness in the Rockford area continues to be highest in the state, at 13.4 percent. That's a 1.3 percent increase from April and just short of its peak of 13.5 percent in March.

Thursday's news comes one week after the Illinois Department of Employment Security said the statewide unemployment rate hit a 25-year high of 10.1 percent.

Besides Rockford, other metro areas with unemployment rates above 10 percent are Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Danville, Decatur and Kankakee-Bradley.

Unemployment in the Peoria area declined in May, to 8.9 percent.
Statewide, the number of jobless stood at 671,400 in May, the most since June 1983.

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