The unemployment rate fell in every metro area in the state for the eleventh month in a row. The Illinois Department of Employment Security is reporting an unemployment rate of 7.3-percent in January for the Peoria area. That’s a one-and-a-half- percent decline from the same time last year. The Peoria area gained one-thousand jobs year-over-year.
Peoria area sees 1.6-percent decline in unemployment rate
