APProjects/illinois-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily

Illinois WARN Act layoff notices — every filing we hold since 1988, one CSV, rebuilt daily

4,847 Illinois WARN notices — every one this dataset holds, back to 1988 — free to download in full: no paywalled years, no login, no account · most recent notice filed 2026-09-16 · state source last checked 2026-09-24T14:06Z · official source: Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity — WARN notices.

Illinois employers must file a WARN Act notice with the state before a qualifying mass layoff or plant closing. This page is generated from those filings, cleaned into one schema shared with 47 other states, and rebuilt every day. Nothing here is behind a login.

The data above is free forever — CC BY 4.0, no login, no API key, no delay, rebuilt daily.

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Download Illinois layoff data

The file in this repository, data/il_warn_notices.csv, is byte-identical to the free per-state file on GitHub linked below; the other files are the all-state siblings.

What	File
Illinois notices, all years (CSV, free)	data/by-state/il.csv
All 48 states, all years (CSV, free)	data/warn_notices.csv
All 48 states (JSON, free)	data/latest.json
Illinois RSS feed	feeds/illinois.xml
Notice-period analysis, every state × year	data/notice_period_by_state_year.csv
Browsable page with search and charts	Illinois on the live site
Same data on Hugging Face	APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-notices-daily

Licence: CC BY 4.0 — use it commercially, just credit the source.

Most recent Illinois notices

Employer	Location	Employees	Notice filed	Effective
Continental Web Press, Inc.	Itasca, 1430 Industrial Dr	92	2026-09-16	—
Charles Industries, LLC	Rantoul, 201 Shellhouse Dr	75	2026-09-16	—
Fulton Troika, LLC	Chicago, 4501 W 42ND Pl	109	2026-09-02	—
Uber Technologies, Inc.	Chicago, 433 West Van Buren St.	363	2026-09-02	—
Ametek (Lavezzi Precision, Inc.)	Bloomingdale, 250 Madsen Dr	63	2026-09-01	—
MAT HOLDINGS INC.	Romeoville, 821 W Bluff Rd	97	2026-08-25	—
BFG Supply Company, LLC	Danville, 70 Eastgate Dr.	35	2026-08-24	—
Fortrex (at Tyson Foods)	Hillsdale, 28424 38TH Ave. North	103	2026-08-14	—
Tyson Foods, Inc.	Hillsdale, 28424 38TH Ave. North	2,495	2026-08-13	—
TV Hardware Distribution, LLC	Chicago, 8600 W Bryn Mawr Ave.	116	2026-08-10	—
Nordstrom	Lombard, 100 Yorktown Center	101	2026-08-07	—
GreenWood, Inc.	Hanover Park, 850 Central Ave.	28	2026-08-04	—

Newest 12 of 4,847 free-window Illinois notices. The complete file is the CSV above — every notice we hold for this state, back to 1988, free and rebuilt daily.

Employers that have filed the most Illinois WARN notices

529 employers have filed two or more Illinois notices. The 25 most frequent filers, rolled up on the normalized employer name (company_canonical), with every notice counted from the free file above. "Workers affected" sums the headcount on the notices that state one; it is a floor, not an estimate.

Employer	Notices	Workers affected	First notice	Latest notice
Kmart	72	6,656	1994-11-21	2018-11-08
Ames Department Stores	35	2,888	1988-12-05	1990-06-14
Venture Stores	28	2,795	1998-04-27	1998-04-27
Montgomery Ward	22	4,471	1999-01-15	2001-01-12
Carson's	16	2,185	2018-02-02	2018-04-05
Eagle Food Centers	14	888	1994-10-11	2003-08-13
Illinois Central School Bus	12	924	2013-03-26	2026-04-01
Walmart	11	1,430	2017-01-03	2026-03-27
Builders Square Store	11	778	1999-02-10	1999-02-10
Compass Group	10	1,055	2023-04-11	2025-06-25
Ultra Foods	10	1,033	2016-02-18	2017-04-18
Caterpillar	9	4,399	1991-09-01	2019-02-25
Sam's Club	9	1,406	2010-01-10	2018-01-11
United Airlines	8	29,395	1994-01-26	2020-07-08
Dominick's	8	6,106	2013-10-28	2013-11-13
Amazonfresh	8	1,281	2026-01-28	2026-01-28
Dominick's Finer Foods & Safeway	8	1,093	2006-08-18	2008-02-25
Montgomery Ward &	8	913	1997-03-03	1999-01-15
Sears, Roebuck and	8	858	1990-06-06	2011-03-14
Bank of America	7	1,262	2008-01-15	2016-07-08
Cub Foods East	7	998	2006-10-02	2006-10-02
First Student	7	900	2006-04-11	2025-05-05
Shopko Stores	7	646	2001-01-31	2006-11-09
Sears	7	564	2016-05-02	2019-04-18
Shop n Save	7	489	2016-08-05	2018-09-17

Largest single Illinois WARN notices on file

The 10 biggest Illinois notices by employees affected, out of 4,820 notices that state a headcount.

Employer	Location	Employees	Notice filed	Effective
UNITED AIRLINES	CHICAGO, O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	14,487	2002-12-30	—
United Airlines	Chicago, 233 S. Wacker Dr.	4,968	2020-07-08	—
UNITED AIRLINES	CHICAGO, O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	4,500	2001-10-05	—
FCA US, LLC	Belvidere, 3000 West Chrysler Drive	4,335	2019-02-27	2020-08-25
UNITED AIRLINES	ELK GROVE VILLAGE, 1200 EAST ALGONQUIN ROAD	4,149	2002-12-30	—
Midway Airlines, Inc	Chicago, 5959 S Cicero Ave	3,998	1991-11-04	—
CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE	CHANUTE AIR BASE, 3345 MSSQ/MSC BLDG 242	3,750	1988-12-23	—
Dominick's	Cook County, Multiple Cook County sites	3,244	2013-10-28	—
Yellow Corporation	Nashville, 501 Commerce Street Suite 1120	3,000	2023-08-02	—
American Airlines	Chicago, 10000 W O'Hare Ave	2,995	2020-07-16	—

How much notice did Illinois workers actually get?

No Illinois notice in the archive carries both a notice date and an effective date, so no notice-period statistic is available.

Year	Notices with both dates	Under 60 days	Share
2021	1	0	n<30
2020	1	0	n<30
2019	2	0	n<30
2018	2	1	n<30
2015	1	1	n<30
2014	2	1	n<30
2010	1	0	n<30
2009	1	1	n<30
2007	1	1	n<30
2006	3	2	n<30
2004	2	0	n<30
2003	4	1	n<30
2002	3	2	n<30
2001	2	1	n<30

Read this before quoting the notice-period numbers. Several states publish the date the state received the filing rather than the date workers were notified, so an interval a little under 60 days is frequently state processing lag rather than a short notice. That is why this dataset publishes state-level and year-level shares and never ranks named employers by notice length.

Method and exclusions: notice-period analysis.

Track Illinois layoffs without polling this file

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A layoff record you can audit, not just download

This dataset is one cut of a single daily rebuild: 61,431 US WARN Act layoff notices from 48 state agencies, 1988 to today, one schema, no login, no delay, CC BY 4.0. Snapshot as of 2026-09-25; the files above are rebuilt every day, so the live count is the truth.

Several projects publish a current WARN scrape and two of them carry more rows than we do. None of them publish what the records used to say:

• 2,482 observed changes to already-published notices, logged daily since 2026-08-31. data/revisions.csv records every field that differed between two consecutive daily builds — employee counts, effective dates, notice types, company names — with the old value, the new value and the date we saw it. We publish the observation and not the cause: a change is equally explained by the agency amending the notice or by our own parser improving, and we do not guess which (see data/revisions.README.txt). A scrape that starts tomorrow cannot backfill any of it; it only exists if someone was watching.
• 6,799 notices whose state agency page no longer lists them. Agencies take notices down. We keep them, flagged as archive-only, so a count you ran last year still reconciles.
• Point-in-time employer identity. The ticker crosswalk resolves a filer to the company as it existed at the time of the notice — Kmart, Sears Holdings, Symantec — not to whatever is on today's ticker file.

If you have to defend a number to an editor, a referee or a compliance reviewer, that provenance layer is the part you cannot rebuild yourself. How to cite this dataset →

Look something up right now — free, no signup, nothing to install. Check any employer or state against the last 180 days → It runs in your browser against these same files.

Building something with it? The same files are a free HTTP API — JSON and CSV, no key, no signup, access-control-allow-origin: * so fetch() works from a browser: endpoints, schema and curl examples →

Prefer a spreadsheet? One formula puts the last 90 days, the last 12 months or any single state into Google Sheets as a live range that refreshes itself — no signup, no add-on: the formulas, one per state → =IMPORTDATA("https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices@main/data/sheets/us-last-90-days.csv")

Backtesting, or citing a figure you published last month? Today's file has look-ahead and survivorship bias baked in: notices get amended after the fact and some rows are later deleted. The same table as it stood on any past day since 2026-08-30 — one immutable vintage per day, 25 so far, plus a first-appearance index giving the first and last day every notice id was in the file — is the point-in-time snapshot archive. Nobody can backfill it.

Need one industry only? The same filings, cut by an auditable employer-name rule (each row keeps the rule that fired): tech companies · hospitals & healthcare · retail store closings · restaurants & hotels · factory & plant closings · banks, insurance & finance · warehouses, trucking & logistics · all 20 sectors.

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Reaching a human. WARN Feed is published by APProjects, an automated data publisher — that is stated plainly rather than dressed up. Corrections, coverage gaps, schema questions and refund requests all go here and are read: open an issue. Payments are handled by Gumroad as merchant of record, so an invoice can carry your company name.

Source, scrapers and methodology · the 48-state site

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