Illinois employers forecast 1,300 layoffs

More than 1,300 Illinoisans will be laid off in coming months, according to notices filed in accordance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN. Among the cuts listed in the August WARN report are 418 jobs lost in conjunction with Hostess Brands’ shuttering of its Twinkie factory in Schiller Park – the...

More than 1,300 Illinoisans will be laid off in coming months, according to notices filed in accordance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN.

Among the cuts listed in the August WARN report are 418 jobs lost in conjunction with Hostess Brands’ shuttering of its Twinkie factory in Schiller Park – the site of the snack’s invention.

And that’s not the only Illinois mainstay cutting its payrolls.

Moline-based Deere & Co. announced it will be handing out 425 pink slips due to diminishing demand. And Lake Forest-based Brunswick Corp. will downsize by 50 workers after selling its retail bowling business, according to Crain’s Chicago Business.

Unfortunately for Illinoisans, the report is only a small glimpse into the recent deluge of bad employment news from a state that’s tracking dead last in the country on job creation in 2014 and dead last in post-recession jobs recovery.