EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Following several years of declines, manufacturing employment in Illinois rose a half percent over the past twelve months according to the 100th anniversary 2012 Illinois Manufacturers Directory®, an industrial directory published annually since 1912 by Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. MNI reports Illinois gained 3,496 industrial jobs between November 2010 and November 2011, the first time in over a decade that the 100-year-old company recorded a gain in manufacturing employment for the state.
Manufacturers’ News reports Illinois is now home to 19,111 manufacturers employing 817,063 workers.
“We’re finally starting to see positive numbers for Illinois,” says Tom Dubin, President of the Evanston, IL-based publishing company, which has been surveying industry since 1912. “Despite a high corporate tax rate, Illinois still boasts an educated workforce, easy access to capital, and a central location within the Midwest to do business. It’s unlikely that manufacturing employment will ever return to the levels of ten years ago, but it’s nice to see the uptick.”
Bright spots for the state included Chrysler’s recent announcement that it planned to hire 1,800 workers for its Belvidere assembly facility; the opening of a new Boeing plant in Mascoutah;
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