While unemployment is increasing nationwide, this upward trend is not the same in Central Illinois, where unemployment is steadily decreasing.

EFFINGHAM, Ill (WAND) - Teenagers are making up more and more of the job force. Companies and organizations are turning to them to fill positi…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – Unemployment rates have fallen -0.1 percentage point to 7.1 percent; meanwhile, nonfarm payrolls increased +35,400 …

(WAND)- Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the FBI established a new Attorney General’s Task Force on Unemployment Insurance Benefits Fraud. 

ILLINOIS (WAND) - Some workers who received money in a pandemic unemployment relief program have been asked to pay back the financial assistance. 

ILLINOIS (WAND) - Illinois has been approved to offer unemployment benefits of as much as $300 per week after past federal unemployment assist…

MACON COUNTY Ill. (WAND) — Residents are warned to beware of receiving unemployment benefit card in the mail when they haven't applied for benefits. 

ILLINOIS (WAND) - Over 1 in 5 Illinoisans lost their jobs in the last two months, per the Illinois Policy Institute.

LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) - Dozens of people living in Lincoln are getting a heartfelt thank you after residents stepped up to help those left unem…