Illinois layoffs: layoff notices and recent layoff list
The short version
Employers filed 112 layoff notices in Illinois in the last 12 months, naming 19,974 people. The most recent was filed Oct 30, 2026.
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Illinois jobs picture
The latest White Collar Employment Report names only the states with the largest and smallest changes, and Illinois is not among them this month. See Illinois’s figures at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: BLS State Employment and Unemployment, August 2026 (Sep 18, 2026), via the NextChapter White Collar Employment Report. Seasonally adjusted.
Notices in the last 12 months
Illinois layoffs by industry
- Agriculture & Food Production6 notices · 3,049 people
- Healthcare & Hospital Systems8 notices · 2,780 people
- Retail & E-commerce17 notices · 2,545 people
- Transportation & Logistics20 notices · 2,356 people
- Automotive & Mobility5 notices · 1,564 people
- Manufacturing & Industrial11 notices · 1,157 people
- Telecommunications3 notices · 754 people
- Hospitality, Travel & Food Service4 notices · 583 people
Illinois layoffs by county and city
Each county and city page shows its layoff notices next to local unemployment, open jobs, the largest employers, colleges, the workforce board and job centers.
- Northfield
- Stickney
- Gurnee
- Naperville
- Elmhurst
- Warrenville
- Springfield
- Schaumburg
- Edwardsville
- Arlington Heights
- Itasca
- Rantoul
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- Chicago
- Bloomingdale
- Romeoville
- Danville
- Hanover Park
- Lincolnshire
- Rolling Meadows
- Woodridge
- Skokie
- University Park
- Geneva
- Bolingbrook
- Channahon
- Waukegan
- Rockford
- Elk Grove Village
- Niles
- Franklin Park
- Moline
- Burr Ridge
- Matteson
- Baldwin
- Kincaid
- Newton
- Rock Island
- Belvidere
- Oak Park
- Chicago Heights
- Robinson
- Plainfield
- Godfrey
- Palos Heights
- Wilmington
- Melrose Park
- Waterloo
- Streamwood
- Deerfield
- Olympia Fields
- McHenry
- Rosemont
- Oak Lawn
- Morton Grove
- Norridge
- Tinley Park
- North Riverside
- Alton
- Albion
- Des Plaines
- Saint Elmo
- Saint Charles
- Minooka
- Homewood
- Maywood
- Dwight
- Elgin
- All Illinois counties and cities102 counties
Local workforce boards
The public workforce boards serving the areas in these notices. Their American Job Centers offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Du Page County Workforce Innovation Board
For notices in Naperville, Elmhurst, Warrenville, Itasca and more
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
East Central Illinois Workforce Board
For notices in Rantoul
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Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Board
For notices in Minooka, Dwight
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Kane, Kendal & DeKalb County Workforce Development Board
For notices in Geneva, Saint Charles, Elgin
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
Lake County Workforce Development Board
For notices in Gurnee, Lincolnshire, Waukegan, Deerfield
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
Land of Lincoln Workforce Alliance Illinois workNet Center
For notices in Springfield, Kincaid
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Local Workforce Innovation Board 23
For notices in Newton, Robinson, Saint Elmo
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LWIA 7
For notices in Northfield, Stickney, East Walton Chicago, Schaumburg and more
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Madison - Bond - Jersey- Calhoun Workforce Innovation Board
For notices in Edwardsville, E Edwardsville, South Edwardsville, Godfrey and more
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
McHenry County Workforce Network Board
For notices in McHenry
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Mid America Workforce Investment Board
For notices in Baldwin, Waterloo
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Southern 14 Workforce Investment Board
For notices in Albion
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The Workforce Connection Inc.
For notices in Rockford, Belvidere
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Vermillion County Workforce Investment Board
For notices in Danville
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
Workforce Development Board of Rock Island, Henry and Mercer Counties, Not-for-Profit Corporation
For notices in Moline, Rock Island
Workforce Investment Board of Will County
For notices in Romeoville, University Park, Bolingbrook, Channahon and more
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
If you were laid off in Illinois
- Illinois unemployment benefits and severance rules: amounts, weeks and how to file
- What to do after a layoff
- Get new Illinois notices by RSS · all feeds
- Keeping your health coverage: COBRA and the marketplace
- COBRA vs ACA in Illinois: which costs less
- Illinois rapid response: who to call after a layoff notice
- Illinois workforce boards (22)
- American Job Centers in Illinois
- Illinois economic development organizations
- Illinois colleges: retraining and career services
- Layoff deadlines: what to do and by when, from your last day
- Unemployment benefit estimator: about how much you could get
- Severance calculator: what an offer is worth after taxes
Coverage: 179 Illinois notices on file, filed Apr 22, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026, collected daily from the state’s published layoff record (www2.illinois.gov). A state may publish late or leave out worker counts, so this is a floor rather than a count of every layoff. States generally require a notice only from employers with 100 or more workers. See the national tracker for how we collect notices.