Press Release: Southern Illinois Highlights Carbondale Marion Area. The January 2022 unemployment rate was 5.1 percent. This was a decrease of -1.8 percentage points from the January 2021 rate of 6.9 percent.
Press Release: South Central Illinois HighlightsMattoon Charleston Area. January 2022 total nonfarm employment increased by +675 compared to one year ago.
The Illinois State Museum announces plans for its second annual Juneteenth art exhibition, NOIR II: The Migration, in collaboration with Springfields Juneteenth, Inc., and national artists and co-curators, Korbin Kas King and Michelle Micki Smith, scheduled to open on Friday, May 27, 2022, in Springfield.