[circlecity]

"A Labor Department analyst said claims for Illinois and snowstorm-hit Connecticut had been estimated."

So, we are seasonally adjusting number we just pull out of thin air. And then crowing about it. "The government further announced record wheat harvests this year"

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Interesting that, last time they had a better than expected (drink!) report, they estimated California.

Illinois and California are both in about the same econimic straits.