North Chicago, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
Largest employers headquartered in North Chicago
- AbbVie20,001–100,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
North Chicago layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming North Chicago in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Colleges in North Chicago
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | Private nonprofit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving North Chicago. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Lake County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.6% the month before
364,542
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
711,885
people in Lake County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$108,917
median household income
Source: Census ACS
47%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Lake County
- Mundelein586 jobs
- Lake Forest109 jobs
- Lincolnshire85 jobs
- Waukegan65 jobs
- Vernon Hills56 jobs
- Libertyville41 jobs
- Buffalo Grove46 jobs
- Mettawa33 jobs
- Riverwoods17 jobs
- Gurnee21 jobs
- Lake Bluff19 jobs
- Round Lake16 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: 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.