Chicago business activity drops for 23rd straight month – Illinois Policy

This decline in business activity has coincided with a job market consistently worse than the national one. Chicago-area unemployment stood at 4.9 percent as of July 2025, higher than the country’s 4.6 percent rate, the latest data showed.

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