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The maximum interest rate in May for loans secured by residential real estate is 10.25 percent .... The comptroller's monthly report showed the general funds average daily available balance in March was $85 million; the end-of-month balance $123 million, and the combined funds end-of-month balance $196 million .... The preliminary actuall statewide unemployment rate for March was 6.7 per cent, a drop from the February final figure of 7.1 per cent. Final unemployment rates for February in the state's major cities were: Chicago, 6.6 per cent; Bloomington-Normal, 6.0 per cent; Champaign-Urbana, 6.0 per cent; Decatur, 8.5 percent; Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, 6.1 per cent; East St. Louis area, 8.1 per cent; Kankakee, 9.0 per cent; Peoria, 6.4 per cent; Rockford, 6.3 per cent; Springfield, 7.1 per cent. Preliminary March figures for these cities show a decline
in unemployment.
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