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Top 25 Black-owned recruiting firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 68 black-owned recruiting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 733 professional contacts across them, including 155 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (116 companies); Chicago has 68.
This list covers black-owned recruiting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest black-owned recruiting firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a global talent management boutique serving all industries and with a strong concentration of real assets, healthcare, hospitality, and private equity clients, Ferguson…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Take charge of the way you apply for your next job with TalentAlly, the job board for diverse professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HIRE360’s mission is to expand employment opportunities through recruiting, training and placement assistance; invest capital in helping minority- and women-owned businesses grow…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Hire Company is a woman-owned, boutique recruiting firm who puts people first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1993, Larko is a nationwide, women-owned recruitment & staffing firm committed to creating a streamlined experience for both clients and candidates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why Roy Talman & Associates?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 40 years, Carrington & Carrington, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Katalyst Group is a boutique executive search and project resources firm specializing in the representation of corporate finance, accounting, and human resources professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Upper Deck Staffing Company in Chicago, IL is a homegrown, grass-rooted, Chicago-based professional recruiting and staffing firm that capitalizes on job placement and hiring.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AFK Professional Search has the experience and expertise to assess your needs in Accounting, Finance, and Technology and to place qualified and dedicated professionals in your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're a marketing and brand strategy firm with a focus on POC organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BottomLine Recruiting is a woman owned and operated, full-service sales recruiting firm focused on delivering noticeable revenue results for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global Talent Recruiting (GTR) is a talent strategy and recruiting firm connecting exceptional professionals with rewarding employment opportunities primarily in consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “V Elizabeth Talent Acquisition Solutions is a diversity retained executive search firm headquartered in Gary, IN and Chicago, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maven Recruiting & Consulting is a company centered around achieving optimal results and impacting lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Purpose Workforce Solutions is a full-service mentoring & coaching based staffing firm that helps employers fill their open roles with reliable, engaged and diverse talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Retained executive search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Susan Rosenstein Executive Search Limited, founded in 1986, is a women-owned boutique search firm focusing on the recruitment of mid to senior level executives in the functional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EASE Automations is a minority-owned professional services firm that delivers diversity and inclusion workforce solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a women-owned and managed, boutique Chicago-based legal recruiting company with 30 years of combined experience as attorneys and legal search consultants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UNO Recruit LLC is a niche IT Services and Consulting organization in Chicago, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Realistic Recruiting, with Diversity & Inclusion in the Forefront” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Cognition Group is a Talent Management Firm with a focus in analytics, a specialty in diversity recruiting, and a national reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: black-owned recruiting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names black-owned recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of black-owned recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name black-owned recruiting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Black-owned recruiting firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 68 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among black-owned recruiting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “black-owned recruiting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names black-owned recruiting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among black-owned recruiting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 155 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names black-owned recruiting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many black-owned recruiting firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 68 black-owned recruiting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Synectics INC, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most black-owned recruiting firms?
New York leads the United States with 116 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (72) and Chicago (68).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 155 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 68 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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