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Amidst the pandemic, the Illinois unemployment rate jumped to 16.4% last month.April’s rate rose over 12 percentage points from March, as businesses had…
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State officials are blaming a “glitch” in Illinois' new system for processing unemployment benefits for making private information public - but a local…
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The Illinois Department of Employment Security has been busy since the COVID-19 pandemic started.IDES says it has now processed over one million initial…
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A group of Illinois employers say they are not happy with recent changes to the state’s workers compensation rules.
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Illinois House Republicans in a press conference Monday said Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has not done enough to address the tsunami of...
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Many frontline employees will be able to get worker's compensation if they contract COVID-19 under a new emergency rule. The rule assumes that police,…
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Murphysboro Mayor Will Stephens participated in a 90-minute conference call with President Donald Trump and other federal officials on Wednesday.During…
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Illinois continued to share in the nation’s economic pain wrought by COVID-19 with over 178,421 unemployment claims filed last week.The 56% jump, from the…
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The State of Illinois is taking additional steps to address the unprecedented volume of unemployment benefit claims the department has fielded as a result…
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Illinoisans are still reporting problems trying to access unemployment applications on the Illinois Department of Employment Security website.Governor J-B…