State Unemployment Ticks Up Again

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Apr 15, 2010 6:40PM

The economy may be in the early stages of a slow turn-around (right? RIGHT?), but state unemployment crept up ever so slightly in March. The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 11.5 percent for last month, up from 11.4 percent in February. If there's a silver lining, it's that 3,000 more jobs were added in March, the third straight month of job increases. [Crain's]