DuPage County, Illinois

Home to a population of about 930,000, DuPage County is Illinois’ second-most populous county. It borders Cook, Will, Kane, and Kendall counties. DuPage is one of the outer portions of the Chicago metropolitan area. Once primarily farmland, DuPage County today is a hub for commerce and scientific innovation with many industrial sectors. Important employers for the area include Ace Hardware and Navistar Holdings.

DuPage has a lively employment market that is always churning with new arrivals and motivated job applicants. Such a diverse labor market typically simplifies employer efforts to attract talent to open positions. To ensure that individuals safely fit into a new role with your company, you must develop a pre-employment vetting process that produces results quickly.

An in-depth interview can tell you a lot about a person, but it can’t reveal their entire past—learning about an individual’s history necessitates a thorough criminal background check. For some positions, running these checks is the law. For others, it’s simple due diligence intended to safeguard your staff and the public. 

Making a reasonable assessment of an applicant’s past requires an external resource to provide facts in an understandable format. Relying on self-reporting from applicants isn’t a business’s best choice. Instead, begin by consulting the court records maintained locally in DuPage County. A serious criminal record at the local level may speak to an applicant’s unsuitability for a certain role, leading you to the next resume in the pile. However, you shouldn’t stop here, particularly if local records come back clean: an applicant may have records in nearby counties, particularly closer to Chicago.

All the useful information that these checks provide is meaningless if you do not consider the information appropriately. Illinois employs a “ban the box” statute statewide that requires employers of 15 or more people to delay criminal history inquiries until after the first interview and the extension of a conditional job offer. Other rules, including the federal FCRA and the Civil Rights Act, also set boundaries that you must observe—applicant consent is mandatory for background checks, and you must avoid discriminatory actions.

With firm legal footing and a fair hiring process in place, you can take action with new hires right away with help from backgroundchecks.com. Our search products, including our county-level background check are perfect for businesses hiring at any scale within DuPage county. To cast a wider net for data in other counties as Cook and Kane, use our instant US OneSEARCH.

Each search product relies on data maintained at the state and local level in computer systems that are unaffiliated with backgroundchecks.com. Data is subject to change. For sensitive hiring situations, employers can access the most updated information possible through a direct search of county courthouse records. Results typically come back within three working days.

These products source their data from the:

• Illinois Department of Corrections – Felony records from 1986-present, updated quarterly
• Illinois Sex Offender Registry – Data from 2004-present, updated bi-weekly
• Illinois Violent Offender Against Youth Registry – Updated monthly
• Illinois Methamphetamine Offender Registry – Data from 2006-present, updated bi-monthly
• DuPage County Courts – Felony, misdemeanor, and traffic records from 1999-present, updated monthly

These reports may include a subject’s:

• Name
• Offense
• Sentence

Take full advantage of DuPage County’s diverse workforce with in-depth information from backgroundchecks.com.

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