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.

Although higher education job growth remained moderate in numbers during the first quarter of 2012, it is still outpacing overall job growth, according to a new report by HigherEdJobs, a job source for the academia industry.

The Big Apple offers the world's lowest-risk location for recruiting, employing and relocating employees, beating out hotspots in Yemen and Ethiopia.

The administrator allegedly used more than $3.2 million from the retirement plan savings of workers from many employers for his own personal expenses.