Pekin, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

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- General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- Director of TreasuryBrewer Morris
- Project Coordinator (LCSW/LCPC) - Crisis ResponseCarle Health
- On-Site HV Project Engineer for Substations (Pekin, IL)SOLV Energy
- On-Site HV Substation Project EngineerSOLV Energy
- Project CoordinatorCarle Health
- Technical Sales Manager - CrushingFLSmidth & Co. A/S
- EPC Assistant Project Manager, Utility Scale Solar (Peoria, IL)SOLV Energy
Employers hiring most in Pekin
- SOLV Energy3 open roles
- Carle Health2 open roles
- Brewer Morris1 open role
- Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
- FLSmidth & Co. A/S1 open role
Pekin layoffs
No layoff notices naming Pekin 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.
Tazewell 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 up 1.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−307 jobs)
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Tazewell County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
63,830
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
130,555
people in Tazewell County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$76,704
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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