Chicago Unemployment Rate Signals Recession


Chicago Tribune: The city of Chicago's unemployment rate climbed to 7.2 percent last month from 6.9 percent the year before, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. 

In the Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights metro area, which has seen its unemployment rate decline for months even as joblessness rose in much of the rest of the state, the rate rose to 6.7 percent in February from 6.5 percent a year earlier...