Illinois’s unemployment rate is holding steady, even as the total number of jobs in the state dipped slightly last month.
State data says Illinois had 800 fewer jobs in December than it did in November, although the total number of jobs in the state was up by 161,000 compared to December of 2021. The biggest area of growth over the past year was in leisure and hospitality jobs, although those jobs fell by 25-hundred from November to December.
The statewide unemployment rate in December held steady from November at 4.7 percent, down four-tenths of one-percent from one year ago.
