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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Shops and businesses lined up in downtown Evanston. The city's unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent in February.

Evanston unemployment rate drops to 4.1 percent

April 5, 2017

Evanston’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent in February, down from 5.2 percent in the same month last year. The February unemployment rate was lower than that of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin-IL-IN-WI...

Source: Illinois Department of Employment Security and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Evanston’s unemployment rate continues to decline

October 29, 2014

Evanston’s unemployment rate continued to fall in September, decreasing to 5.1 percent from 5.3 percent in the previous month. In 2014, the city’s unemployment rate started at 6.5 percent and...

Jesse Ivory, manager of business and community programs at Oakton Community College, speaks at an open house for a commercial driving certification course Tuesday evening at the Levy Senior Center.

Info session discusses commercial driving, job openings

May 6, 2014

About 40 Evanston residents gathered at an information session Tuesday evening to introduce a commercial driving course to help workers navigate what speakers described as an open job market. “There’s...

Ryan: Austerity measures not the answer to European economic woes

Ryan: Austerity measures not the answer to European economic woes

February 19, 2013

I have always been a supporter of austerity economics. In times of crisis, such as the one currently plaguing the European Union, a government must be able to show creditors that it is stable and solvent...

Letter to the Editor: Obama’s jobs policies fall short

September 25, 2012

The United States has lost 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month or a total of 2,000,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs under President Obama. Our unemployment rate hovers over 8%. In January 2012 there...

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