Job growth also remained strong in the public sector, where payrolls were up in Illinois by 28,700 over the year in November.
After a series of aggressive rate hikes meant to curb inflation, Federal Reserve officials are now predicting they'll be able to bring inflation down to their desired goal of 2% without causing a recession, a feat Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee described as "the softest of all the soft landings" in December.
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