Press release: Today, Governor Pritzker and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced that the City of Mattoon will receive an Economic Developmentgrant for $480,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG).
Press Release: Central Illinois Highlights Bloomington MSA: The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 3.6 percent in August 2019 from 4.4 per cent in August 2018.
Press release: Illinois will receive a $4.5 million grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to examine and improve substance use disorder treatment strategies for Medicaid members, the states Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced today.
Press Release: Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL. Metro Division. The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 3.6percent in August 2019 from 3.9 percent in August 2018. The August 2019 unemployment rate is the lowest August unemployment rate on record.
Press Release: Central Illinois Highlights Decatur MSA. The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 5.0 percent in August 2019 from 5.8 percent in August 2018. There were an estimated 2,500 unemployed people in the labor force in August 2019.
Press Release: East Central Illinois HighlightsChampaign-Urbana MSA. The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 3.7 percent in August 2019 from 4.8 percent in August 2018.
Press release: Beginning Sunday, September 29, Illinois employers and employment agencies are prohibited from asking about job applicants past wage and compensation histories or using such information to screen candidates for a position.
Press Release: A number of Illinois state parks, fish and wildlife areas, conservation areas and recreation areas will be open to youth waterfowl hunting during the 2019 Youth Waterfowl Hunting Seasons, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced today.
Press release: St. Clair County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0180, according to David Harris, Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue.