Unemployment in the Quad Cities fell again last month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the rate dropped from 6.6 per cent in November of last year, to 6 per cent last month.
Spokesman Tom Austin says the drop is due to a combination of increases and decreases in hiring.
The November rate was also three-tenths of one per cent lower than October.
Austin says a survey by the Conference Board shows Quad Cities area employers advertised for 52-hundred jobs last month, another good sign for our economy and a useful indictor.
In November, unemployment rates fell in all 12 major metropolitan areas in Illinois, and all are now at their lowest levels in at least 6 years.
The lowest rate was in Bloomington and Normal at 5.6 per cent, and 5.7 in Chicago. The highest rates occurred in Rockford and Danville - both were at 8.1 per cent unemployment.
