Illinois Quick Hits: Illinois employment continues moderate rise
(The Center Square) – The unemployment rate in Illinois over September was 4.6%, down 0.1% from August, according to recently released Illinois Department of Employment Security data, meaning less Illinois residents were without a job last month.
The unemployment rate in the state has fallen over the past three months, but is still up 0.1% from the same time last year.
Illinois’ rate of unemployment is higher than the national average over September, which was 4.2%, but the national rate actually grew 0.1% between August and September.
Gaming board expands self-exclusion program to video gambling
The Illinois Gaming Board, which oversees the regulation of different forms of gambling statewide, announced a change in the agency’s voluntary self-exclusion program for residents that have a problem with gambling.
The Gaming Board said the change is part of a larger initiative to expand and strengthen the self-exclusion program to better serve residents with needs that don’t fall within the program’s focus on traditional gambling, and to provide different and longer-terms for self-exclusion.
The rule change has to be approved by the legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative rules before it can take effect.
Community terminates plans for solar farm
In the Metro East region, the city of Bellville has reversed course on a controversial, but previously approved, solar farm project that was supposed to be built on a 20-acre plot of land adjacent to an area cemetery.
As first reported by the Bellville News-Democrat, the city council passed a motion to allow the city attorney to terminate the lease with Bellville Solar, LLC, to “provide notice of default and/or notice of termination,” and the project may be in default.
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