Lincoln, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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Employers hiring most in Lincoln
- Eaton2 open roles
- WestCare1 open role
Lincoln layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lincoln 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.
Ogle 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 8.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.5%, down 0.9 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−405 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lincoln. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Illinois? How to file for unemployment in Illinois (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- NCI Works
Bureau, Carroll, Jo Daviess, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam, Whiteside
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Ogle County economy
3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
24,044
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
51,536
people in Ogle County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,244
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
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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