Lawyer Fields Questions About Unemployment Benefits

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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A record number of people across the area are filing for unemployment benefits, many of them for the very first time.

Wheaton-based labor lawyer Jeffery Jacobson, a former administrative law judge for the Illinois Department of Employment Security, on Thursday joined the Noon Business hour to field questions. 

Several listeners submitted questions via Facebook.