Unemployment rates fell from August to September in all 18 of Michigan's labor market areas, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget said Thursday, Oct. 22.
Unemployment rates fell from a year earlier in 11 of Illinois' 12 metropolitan areas in September, but the one exception was the largest: the Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg area, where the rate rose 0.4 percentage point to 4.5%, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday, Oct. 22.
