Barrington, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Barrington

• Accounting ManagerLHH
• Quality Engineer (Auto/Aero/Industrial)Michael Page
• Sr. Test EngineerAvantor
• Facilities Project and Energy ManagerBarrington Community Unit School District 220
• Payroll CoordinatorBarrington Community Unit School District 220
• Front End Entry LevelAlbertsons Companies
• Front End Entry LevelSafeway

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Employers hiring most in Barrington

1. Barrington Community Unit School District 2202 open roles
2. Albertsons Companies1 open role
3. Avantor1 open role
4. LHH1 open role
5. Michael Page1 open role
6. Safeway1 open role

Barrington layoffs

No layoff notices naming Barrington in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Cook County outlook: Cooling

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 2.0% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 1.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.7%, up 0.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+38,037 jobs), hotels & food (+18,561 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−15,140 jobs), professional & technical (−6,118 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Barrington. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Why Chicago’s tech job market is ‘resilient’ as AI reshapes hiringThe Business Journals · Oct 21, 2026
• CCMC Advanced Technologies: AI for the Public GoodYahoo Finance · Oct 21, 2026
• CCMC Advanced Technologies Invests $2.4 Million in Chicago to Advance AI, Targets 30 New JobsGreen Bay Press-Gazette · Oct 20, 2026
• 4 takeaways from Chicago’s school board president candidate forumChalkbeat on MSN · Oct 15, 2026

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  Cook; City: Chicago

Cook County economy

• 4.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.3% the month before

• 2,707,866

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 5,185,812

  people in Cook County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $81,797

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 46%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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