CHICAGO (AP) — Unemployment across Illinois inched lower in April, the eighth consecutive monthly decrease, but job growth all but stalled, according to a report from the state Department of Employment Security released Thursday.
Statewide unemployment fell to 8.7 percent, down from 8.8 percent in March, the department said in its regular monthly report on joblessness in Illinois. The national jobless rate was 8.1 percent in April, the federal government said last week.
Illinois employers created just 100 more jobs than they cut in April, and most of the growth was in the manufacturing sector and among firms in the professional and business-services sector. The latter includes many temporary jobs, and experts say they're signals that employers are still uneasy about the economy.
"We're starting to see a little bit of concern over what is going to happen in the fall," said Tom Gimbel, CEO of Chicago-based staffing firm LaSalle Network.
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