At 19%, African-American unemployment in Chicago ranks the third highest in the country

Between 2010 and 2011, the jobless rate for Chicago's black workers increased 1.7%. Chicago's high rate of unemployment for African-Americans was superseded only by Las Vegas, which ranked the highest at 22.6% and Los Angeles, at 22.1%. In general, the jobless rates for all African-Americans are two to three times higher than that of the white population.