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The comptroller's monthly report showed the general funds average daily available balance in October to be $207 million; the general funds end-of-month balance was $211 million, and the combined funds end-of-month balance was $312 million . . . The maximum lawful interest rate for residential real estate loans in November is 1014 per cent . . . The statewide seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October was 5.6 per cent. Final unemployment rates for August in the state's major cities were: Bloomington-Normal, 3.8 per cent; Chicago, 5.9 per cent; Champaign-Urbana, 5.0 per cent; Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, 5.4 per cent; Decatur, 9.4 per cent; Kankakee, 7.5 per cent; Peoria, 4.8 per cent; Rockford, 5.1 per cent; Springfield, 5.8 per cent; St. Louis (Illinois section), 7.7 per cent.