Kankakee, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- OFFICE ASSOCIATEState of Illinois
- Executive DirectorMoments Hospice
- Branch ManagerPNC Financial Services Group
- Director of FinanceCentral Valley Medical Center
- Clinical Supervisor - Emergency ServicesPrime Healthcare
- Clinical SupervisorPrime Healthcare
- Quality Assurance ManagerFresh Del Monte Produce
- Accounts Receivable Specialist - Medicaid & ReportingGardant
- Quality Assurance ManagerDel Monte
- Administrative Assistant (Kankakee County)MMR Consulting
Employers hiring most in Kankakee
- Riverside Health Care System3 open roles
- Central Valley Medical Center1 open role
- Central Valley Medical Center1 open role
- CSL1 open role
- Del Monte1 open role
- DEL Monte1 open role
- Fresh Del Monte Produce1 open role
- Gardant1 open role
- Love's Travel Stops1 open role
- MMR Consulting1 open role
Kankakee layoffs
No layoff notices naming Kankakee 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.
Kankakee County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, down 1.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+394 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−665 jobs)
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- Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Board
Grundy, Kankakee, Livingston
Kankakee County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.4% the month before
49,774
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
106,833
people in Kankakee County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$68,325
median household income
Source: Census ACS
31%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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