City Jobless Rate Up

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jan 29, 2010 3:20PM

Shadowing the state's unemployment rate for December 2009, the unemployment rate in metro Chicago inched up as well, reaching 10.6 percent. The "seasonally unadjusted" rate is down from the 26-year high of 11.3 percent from June 2009 but is still up slightly from November 2009's 10.3 percent. According to Crain's:

Thursday’s report showed there were 163,200 fewer people employed in the metro area last month compared with the same month in 2008, the most among the 12 metro areas reported, according to IDES.

Rockford continues to have the highest jobless rate among Illinois metro areas, at 16%. Kankakee-Bradley followed with a 14.3%.

The rate is also still above the national unemployment rate of 9.7 percent.