By: Diane Benjamin

Surely next year’s elections is not why the website was changed! Right?https://www.illinoisworknet.com/LayoffRecovery/Pages/ArchivedWARNReports.aspx

It no longer lists layoffs as they happen. You now have to wait for a monthly report.

This is the August report – it has to be downloaded from the website in order to read it:

I deleted many columns to make it easier to read. See the original file if you want more details. It doesn’t have to be downloaded to view it – just click on the file name. These are the layoffs reported, only businesses employing over 75 full time people have to report:

In addition more people were added from previous announcments:

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Total 1,065 people

Why is this site now hiding data? Too many people were looking at it?