Kankakee, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

20 open professional jobs in Kankakee. Kankakee is in Kankakee County.

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Employers hiring most in Kankakee

  1. Riverside Health Care System4 open roles
  2. Central Valley Medical Center2 open roles
  3. Gardant2 open roles
  4. Aston Carter1 open role
  5. Central Valley Medical Center1 open role
  6. CSL Behring1 open role
  7. DEL Monte1 open role
  8. Heritage Woods of Des Plaines1 open role
  9. IntePros1 open role
  10. Moments Hospice1 open role

Kankakee layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Kankakee in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Kankakee. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Kankakee County economy

  • 4.3%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.6% the month before

  • 49,283

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 106,833

    people in Kankakee County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $68,325

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 31%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Illinois’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.