7 Illinois employment offices closing Friday
Comments (...)CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Employment Security is closing seven offices across the state.
The move will leave 192 people without jobs. But state officials say those employees will have the chance to fill open jobs elsewhere in state government. The Friday closures include offices in Centralia, DeKalb, East St. Louis, Galesburg, Jacksonville, Mattoon and Murphysboro. The department says the closures are due to federal budget reductions and falling unemployment insurance claims.
The closures mean the department will have shuttered 15 offices over the last year and a half. That includes four Chicago offices and facilities in Freeport, Litchfield, Mount Vernon and Pekin.
The department also has closed ten outpost locations and not filled more than 200 jobs since Oct. 1.
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Really?!? Are we STILL paying for an armed guard at the Social Security office?
Got some real trouble with the retiree's that merits a armed guard?!?
----- And yet the Gov does not seem to know WHERE to cut....how about 65,000 TSA people, turn it back over to the airlines like they used to have it. How about all the Home Land Security? Do we really need another agency besides the FBI, CIA, NSA, and no doubt more than that for domestic security?
--- No, the first thing Gov wants to cut is money sent out to it's people. What's that tell you?(We're messing you over so we can afford to protect U) |
