More than 1,100 workers at 10 companies learned last month that they'll lose their jobs in plant closings or mass layoffs before year-end, according to state records posted online Tuesday.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity requires employers with at least 75 full-time workers to provide 60 days' notice of plant closures or mass layoffs.
A mass layoff occurs when job losses at any single site in any 30-day period total at least a third of employees, numbering at least 25, or at least 250 employees regardless of the percentage.
The biggest cuts are occurring at Sun-Times Media, which last month announced that it would cut more than 400 jobs when the Chicago Tribune Media Group begins handling some of its printing operations.
The Sun-Times confirmed with the state that it'll eliminate 456 jobs in Chicago starting in late September through year-end. Most of the jobs are unionized and include electrical workers, machinists, mailers, operating engineers, pressmen, paper handlers and Teamsters who serviced the soon-to-close plant at 2800 S. Ashland Ave.
It's not the only media company on the state's list for July job-cutting notices.
Schofield Media Group LLC in downtown Chicago is closing, affecting 107 employees.
Also cutting jobs:
-- Consolidated Container Corp. will close a plastic bottle manufacturing plant in Elk Grove Village, resulting in the loss of 68 jobs by mid-September.
-- On-cor Frozen Foods LLC in the West Loop will begin laying off 85 workers in November, when it moves jobs elsewhere.
-- Braxton Seafood Grill in Oak Brook is closing because it's losing its lease, leaving 82 without jobs.
-- Pacific Coast Feather Co. in Des Plaines will begin laying off 70 workers in September.
-- In Palos Hills, Sid's Greenhouse & Garden Center will close soon, with 55 employees getting pink slips.
-- Furniture maker Clarin is closing in Lake Bluff, telling the state that it's letting 75 workers go due to the sale of its assets.
-- A Shopko store in Springfield is closing, affecting 113 jobs.
-- A-1 Wire Tech Inc. is closing a Rockford operation, where 51 workers will be laid off, and moving elsewhere, it told the state.
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