In December the general funds end-of-month balance was $167.76 million, an increase of $48 million from November. The general funds average daily available balance was $136.96 million in December, and the combined funds end-of-month balance was $255.10. State spending for the first six months of fiscal 1982 was $29 million more than income. . . . The statewide seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was 8.4 percent, down 0.5 percent from November. The final seasonally adjusted unemployment rates in the state's major cities in October were: Bloomington-Normal, 5.0 percent; Champaign-Urbana-Rantoul, 5.5 percent; Chicago, 7.9 percent; Davenport-Rock Island-Moline (Illinois sector), 9.3 percent; Decatur, 11.1 percent; Kankakee, 13.5 percent; Peoria, 7.3 percent; Rockford, 8.9 percent; Springfield, 6.1 percent; East St. Louis (Illinois sector), 10.2 percent. . . . And in 1981, for the first time in 99 years, there were no fatalities in Illinois coal mines.

26/February 1982/IHinois Issues