CHAMPAIGN — The unemployment rate in Champaign County took a nasty bump upward in June after the University of Illinois school year ended.

Champaign County's rate climbed to 8.7 percent, up from 7 percent in May.

The uptick was particularly noticeable in Urbana, where the rate rose from 7.3 percent to 9.9 percent.

The rate for the city of Champaign soared too, but not quite as much. Champaign's rate was 8.9 percent, up from 6.9 percent in May.

Most of the decline in employment came in education-related state government jobs, said Tom Austin, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

The number of state government jobs in the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area dropped by 6,300 from May to June, Austin said.

That's typical in June, reflecting the school year that ended in May. Some job loss could appear in the July figures too, as a result of school districts that end classes in June.

Also hard-hit last month: the leisure and hospitality sector, which lost 400 jobs from May to June. That likely reflects students who worked at restaurants during the school year, he said.

The retail trade and information sectors also shed jobs in June. But new jobs were added in construction, wholesale trade and financial-related businesses.

Other counties in East Central Illinois saw rises in the unemployment rate in June. Vermilion County's rate jumped from 8.8 percent to 9.8 percent, while Danville's rate climbed from 9.2 percent to 10.5 percent.

Here are the June rates for other area counties and their change from May:

— DeWitt, 7.6, up from 7.1.

— Douglas, 7.9, up from 7.

— Edgar, 8.9, up from 8.6.

— Ford, 8.2, up from 7.7.

— Iroquois, 7.9, up from 7.5.

— Moultrie, 6.9, up from 6.1.

— Piatt, 7.3, up from 5.8.

McLean and Coles counties — the bases for Illinois State University and Eastern Illinois University, respectively — both had big upticks in unemployment from May to June. McLean's rate jumped from 5.9 percent to 7 percent, while Coles' rate shot from 8 percent to 9.5 percent.

However, the Department of Employment Security noted that June unemployment rates for all metro areas in Illinois were the lowest June rates in three years.

According to the department, 8,815 people in Champaign County were out of work and looking for a job in June, out of a total labor force of 101,010.

Compare that with May, when 105,755 were in the labor force and 7,386 people were out of work and seeking a job.

Do the math, and you'll see that even though Champaign County's labor force had nearly 4,700 fewer people in it in June, the number of unemployed people rose by more than 1,400.

In Vermilion County, 3,600 of the 36,758 people in the labor force were unemployed and looking for work in June.

That compared with 3,242 unemployed in May, when the labor force was slightly smaller.

The June jump in unemployment cost Champaign-Urbana its standing in relation to other metro areas in the state.

Usually the area has the fourth-lowest unemployment rate among the 12 Illinois metro areas.

But in June, it had the sixth-lowest rate, behind Bloomington-Normal, Springfield, the Quad Cities, Peoria and the Illinois portion of the St. Louis metro area.

Champaign-Urbana also suffered in terms of year-to-year comparisons of total non-farm jobs. It lost 3,400 jobs from last June.

Most Illinois metro areas gained jobs over that time frame. Of the four that lost jobs, Champaign-Urbana had the biggest loss, both in sheer numbers and in percentage.