More Construction Job Losses in Chicago, AGC reports
Despite a warmer than normal spring, greater metropolitan Chicago continued to shed construction jobs in April, logging year-over-year declines of 6%, or 6,500 jobs, the greatest such loss in the nation, according to a survey by the Arlington, Va.-based Associated General Contractors of America.
In all, construction employment declined in 157 out of 337 metropolitan markets between April 2011 and April 2012, and increased or stayed level in 180, according to analysis of federal employment data by AGC.