Oak Forest, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Oak Forest
- Front End Entry LevelAlbertsons Companies
- Front End Entry LevelSafeway
- PrincipalForest Ridge School District 142
- Director of Special ServicesForest Ridge School District 142
- Assistant Branch ManagerParts Authority
- Chief Financial Officercontinental electrical construction
- Staff AccountantA Safe Haven Foundation
- Project Coordinator SupportEmpire Workforce Solutions
Employers hiring most in Oak Forest
- Forest Ridge School District 1422 open roles
- A Safe Haven Foundation1 open role
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- continental electrical construction1 open role
- Empire Workforce Solutions1 open role
- Parts Authority1 open role
- Safeway1 open role
Oak Forest layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Oak Forest in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Oak Forest. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- LWIA 7
Cook; City: Chicago
Cook County economy
5.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.7% the month before
2,707,833
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
5,185,812
people in Cook County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$81,797
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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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.