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Career Information for Cooks in Illinois

Fast Facts for Cooks in Illinois

  • Cities with highest percentage of jobs relative to population: Champaign
  • Cities with lowest percentage of jobs relative to population: Chicago
  • Cities with the highest absolute number of jobs: Chicago

Salaries for Cooks in Illinois

  • Metro areas with the highest median salaries: Champaign. (See table at bottom of page)

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Illinois Cooking Schools

School NameCampusHighest AwardEnrolled
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King CollegeChicagoAssociate6,140
College of DuPageGlen EllynAssociate25,768
College of Lake CountyGrayslakeAssociate16,010
Danville Area Community CollegeDanvilleAssociate2,832
Elgin Community CollegeElginAssociate9,613
Harper CollegePalatineAssociate15,156
Illinois Central CollegeEast PeoriaAssociate11,804
John Wood Community CollegeQuincyAssociate2,417
Joliet Junior CollegeJolietAssociate13,149
Kaskaskia CollegeCentraliaAssociate5,041
Rend Lake CollegeInaAssociate4,821
Saint Augustine College ChicagoChicagoBachelor1,289
Southwestern Illinois CollegeBellevilleAssociate13,713
Spoon River CollegeCantonAssociate2,139
The Illinois Institute of Art-ChicagoChicagoBachelor2,867
Triton CollegeRiver GroveAssociate15,658

Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Cooks

The map below shows job statistics for the career type by metro area, for Illinois. A table below the map shows job popularity and salaries across the state.

Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:
Cooks

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Cooks relative to the population of the city, as of 2008. Salary data was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Relative Popularity of 1.0 means that the city has an average number of the particular job, for its population, compared to the rest of the US. Higher numbers mean proportionally more jobs of that type.
Metro AreaJobsSalary
(2008)
Relative
Popularity

ILLINOIS

   
Champaign150$29,67025.4
Chicago920$27,1503.5
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