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Friday January 21st, 2011, 5:45pm
The unemployment rate in Illinois fell for the ninth straight month this past December, dropping to 9.3 percent. Still, over 620,600 Illinoisans were looking for jobs last month.
Below is our updated graph comparing the Illinois and U.S. jobless rates since 2008:
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