Milan, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Milan
- Erie Home - Outside Sales RepresentativeErie Home
- Senior Manager of Paint OperationsElliott Aviation
- Aviation RecruiterElliott Aviation
- Inside Sales RepresentativeBlueLinx Holdings
Employers hiring most in Milan
- Elliott Aviation2 open roles
- BlueLinx Holdings1 open role
- Erie Home1 open role
Milan layoffs
No layoff notices naming Milan 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.
DeKalb 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 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+689 jobs), other services (+317 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−708 jobs), retail (−528 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Kane, Kendal & DeKalb County Workforce Development Board
De Kalb, Kane, Kendall
DeKalb County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
52,345
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
100,512
people in DeKalb County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$69,022
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
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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