Jobless rates rise in East Central Illinois in August

Unemployment rates throughout East Central Illinois rose in August – and in a few cases were a couple percentage points higher than they were a year earlier.

Champaign County's unemployment rate was 6.7 percent in August, up from 6.4 percent in July and 4.9 percent in August 2007.

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