Unemployment in Illinois dropped slightly from October to November in Illinois, and several local counties saw their unemployment numbers drop as well.
DeWitt County unemployment dropped to under 8% at 7.9%, which is a 0.3% decrease.
In Macon County, unemployment dropped to under 10%, from 10.3% ro 9.9%.
Piatt County's unemployment went from 7.4% to 7.1%.
In McLean County, unemployment went from 7.3% to 6.8%, a half percent drop.
Locan County's unemployment went from 8.6% to 8.3%.
Champaign County recorded one of the bigger drops by almost a whole percent, from 8.6% down to 7.8%.
Tazewell County 7.9% to 7.5%.
Sangamon County dropped an even half percent from 7.8% to 7.3%.
Peoria County's unemployment dropped under nine percent, from 9.1% to 8.5%.
In Livingston County, they saw over a half percent drop, from 8.4% to 7.8%.
The largest jump in unemployment happened in Calhoun County, where unemployment jumped nearly two percent, going from 8.3% to 10.1%. And the largest drop in unemployment happened in two places where it dropped nearly a whole percent. In Clay County they went from 11.4% to 10.5%, and also in dropped to under ten percent, going from 10.8% to 9.9%.
