Unemployment Up

By Margaret Lyons in News on Aug 14, 2008 7:36PM

The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced today that the state's unemployment rate now stands at 7.3 percent, a 15-year high. There are currently 491,300 unemployed people in Illinois, which is the most since June 1992. Nationally, the unemployment rate is 5.7, a five-year high. [IDES]