IDES office
Information signs are posted at the Illinois Department of Employment Security Friday, June 5, 2020, in Chicago. IDES is getting a new director after months of complaints about the difficulties unemployed people in the state had filing for benefits. Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press
IDES office
Information signs are posted at the Illinois Department of Employment Security Friday, June 5, 2020, in Chicago. IDES is getting a new director after months of complaints about the difficulties unemployed people in the state had filing for benefits. Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press

Is the worst of the economic upheaval from the pandemic behind us? It might be too soon to tell, but preliminary unemployment data suggests that it might be.

Reset digs into the numbers and gets a look ahead for employment in the region.

GUEST: Alden Loury, data project’s editor, WBEZ

IDES office
Information signs are posted at the Illinois Department of Employment Security Friday, June 5, 2020, in Chicago. IDES is getting a new director after months of complaints about the difficulties unemployed people in the state had filing for benefits. Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press
IDES office
Information signs are posted at the Illinois Department of Employment Security Friday, June 5, 2020, in Chicago. IDES is getting a new director after months of complaints about the difficulties unemployed people in the state had filing for benefits. Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press

Is the worst of the economic upheaval from the pandemic behind us? It might be too soon to tell, but preliminary unemployment data suggests that it might be.

Reset digs into the numbers and gets a look ahead for employment in the region.

GUEST: Alden Loury, data project’s editor, WBEZ