Uneployment Rate in Cook County continues to decline

The jobless rate in the entire U.S. seems to be flat but locally we can observe a very positive trend, especially in large metropolitan areas like Chicago. Cook County, Illinois saw a 1.5% drop in unemployment between June 2009 and September 2009.

The graph above shows a sharp rise in unemployment rate from May 2008 to June 2009 follow by equally significant decline in the 3 months that followed. Still, Cook County, Illinois has the jobless rate almost half percent higher than the average for all of the United States.