MOLINE, Ill. (WTVO) — The John Deere company announced it will be laying off nearly 600 employees in Illinois and Iowa as it gets ready to move to Mexico. The tractor and harvester manufacturer ...

Rockford and Springfield, with the highest increase at 2,200 in Champaign-Urbana. The areas with the biggest increase in unemployment rates are Davenport-Moline-Rock Island IA-IL, Chicago ...