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County Unemployment Numbers For September Released

Area August unemployment numbers were released Thursday and most of central Illinois saw unemployment drop.

McLean County saw one of the areas lowest unemployment rates at 7.3%, which was a 0.4% drop from July.

Tazewell County's 7.6% was also one of the area lows, which was a 0.3% drop.

DeWitt County saw a slight drop in unemployment going from 8.2% to 8.1%.

Piatt County's unemployment was an even half-percent drop, going down to 8%.

Logan County also saw unemployment drop by a half percent, going to 8.4%.

Macon County had one of the state's highest unemployment rates at 11.4%. That was down from 11.6% in July.

Champaign County had an unemployment rate of 8.9%, down from 9.1% in July.

Sangamon County's unemployment came in at 7.9%, down from 8.2% in July.

Shelby County had a 9.4%, up from 9.3%.

The highest unemployment rate in the state was at 12.3% in Franklin, which was down from July.

The lowest unemployment rate was in Brown County at 5.1, unchanged from July.

The largest drop in unemployment went from 13.2% to 11.6% in Alexander County. A difference of 1.6-percent.

Because there were so few gains in unemployment, Jasper County saw a September increase of 0.6%, going from 8.7 to 9.3.

Illinois' overall September unemployment rate was 8.9, down from 9.3 in July. The national average was 8.2, down from 8.6 in July.

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