By Kiah Haslett
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The Chicago-area unemployment rate for March remains unchanged since February, holding at 10.9 percent. The unemployment rate for the state of Illinois increased a tenth of a percent to 11.5, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

This is still lower than the February 1983 unemployment high of 12.9 percent. The lowest unemployment has been for Illinois was February 1999.

The national unemployment rate for March was 9.7 percent.