Support Marketplace  Unemployment doesn't discriminate  Iris
Bess (left) and Steve Ostrowski, both 38. Bess has laid from a
$50,000-a-year HR job and works odd jobs. Ostrowski quit his
six-figure job as an ad salesman in the publishing industry to
get his MBA and hasn't gotten a job since.   Tess Vigeland: 15
million unemployed people in this country. It's a number you
hear a lot these days. But it's kind of like the abstract ones
we're get out of the Gulf coast -- 60,000 barrels of oil a day,
70,000. Doesn't really help you grasp the enormity of the
problem. So we decided to come here to Chicago, to get a sense
of what it's like to go long stretches without a paycheck.  More
than half a million people are currently looking for work in the
Windy City. The increase in job seekers last year was the second
biggest of any metro area in the country, topped only by the
city we traveled from -- Los Angeles. And a recovery isn't
coming to this state any time soon; Illinois ranks 48th in job
creation.  So what does th