Niles, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Niles

• Director, Digital Manufacturing & SupportReyes Holdings
• Executive DirectorChick-fil-A
• Capital Projects Mechanical Engineer - Food Process SystemsHelion Group
• Account ExecutiveCotton Candy
• Senior Decision ScientistReyes Holdings
• Cloud Solutions ManagerReyes Holdings
• Quality Assurance ManagerReyes Holdings
• Manufacturing / Production SupervisorReyes Holdings
• Staff AccountantReyes Holdings
• HR ManagerReyes Holdings

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Employers hiring most in Niles

1. Reyes Holdings13 open roles
2. Woodward6 open roles
3. Advantage Solutions1 open role
4. Chick-fil-A1 open role
5. Cotton Candy1 open role
6. Helion Group1 open role
7. KWI Cabinetry1 open role
8. Pool1 open role
9. RoofingSource1 open role
10. Serenity Home Health Care Agency1 open role

Niles layoffs

• 1

  Layoff notices, last 12 months

• 180

  workers named

  A floor: states may leave out counts

• 1

  employer

All layoff notices in the state

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 Niles. 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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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Niles. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• LWIA 7

  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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