CHICAGO (CBS) --This week marks one year since the bottom fell out of Illinois' job market because of the pandemic. On March 16, 2020, weekly jobless claims jumped from 10,000 to more than 114,000, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Tax time is now a troubling time for those who have been ensnared in the state's unemployment system this year. The victims of fraudsters using the identity of strangers to get their ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — Many Illinoisans have struggled to successfully apply for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Which has meant an uptick of calls for lawmakers, who've been trying to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For many people it's hard enough getting through to file for unemployment, but others are experiencing a different problem. They said the debit card that should have their ...

A group of four Republican state representatives is calling for a state audit of the Illinois Department of Employment Security to examine a data breach at the agency and its continued slow adaptation ...

Many residents are still struggling to receive state unemployment benefits after weeks of trying, and now state lawmakers want an audit to review the department’s responses. House Republicans said ...

Ultimately, this “glitch,” as IDES called it, opened the personal information of more than 32,000 claimants. However, IDES said last week, the information was available only to the woman in Bryant’s ...

LISLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Complaints about filing for unemployment in Illinois continue to come in, ranging from website glitches to technical problems to waiting on hold for hours. Governor JB Pritzker ...

If you’re noticing an existential gloom hanging over all of humanity today, rest assured: It’s not because today is “The Ides of March.” In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, first produced in 1599, ...

(The Center Square) – The Senate Labor Committee heard testimony Wednesday regarding the ongoing problems at the Department of Employment Security, including fraudulent claims, delays in sending out ...