Illinois Jobless Rate Ticks Up In April

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It’s good news/bad news again for the employment picture in Illinois.  The state added jobs in April, but the unemployment rate crept up again.  The jobless rate inched up a tenth-of-a-point to six-point-six -percent in April, even as the state saw a net increase of 54-hundred jobs.  More than half of those jobs were temporary or with employment agencies.