Lake Bluff, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Inside Sales SpecialistInsight Global
- Direct Hire Production ManagerAerotek
- Construction Project ManagerWest Leland Group
- Senior Business Systems AnalystHomewerks Worldwide
- Accounting ManagerScott Byron
- Supply Chain AnalystHomewerks Worldwide
- Remodeling Project CoordinatorServiceMaster by McCann
- Restoration Project Coordinator, Disaster RecoveryServiceMaster by McCann
- Sr. Manager, Global Product ManagementIllinois Tool Works
- Global Product ManagerIllinois Tool Works
Employers hiring most in Lake Bluff
- Illinois Tool Works4 open roles
- Homewerks Worldwide2 open roles
- ServiceMaster by McCann2 open roles
- Aerotek1 open role
- Insight Global1 open role
- Scott Byron1 open role
- West Leland Group1 open role
Lake Bluff layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lake Bluff 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.
Lake 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 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,406 jobs), wholesale (+1,745 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−4,127 jobs), admin & staffing (−3,589 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Lake County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
365,784
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
711,885
people in Lake County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$108,917
median household income
Source: Census ACS
47%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Illinois’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Illinois unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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