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Top 25 Lobbying recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 53 lobbying recruitment firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 359 professional contacts across them, including 159 with verified work emails. Across the United States, Washington is the largest hub for this category (410 companies); Chicago has 53.
This list covers lobbying recruitment 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 28, 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 lobbying recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since our beginning in 1985, Slayton Search Partners' strategy has been to focus on possibilities, not limitations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BCI is a boutique recruiting firm that has served the financial services industry nationwide for more than 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “APS is a full-service public affairs firm working with elected officials, corporations, non-profits, and communities to deliver positive social impact and equitable outcomes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “New Chicago Consulting is a full-service consulting firm with expertise in campaign development, political consulting, and public affairs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Conlon Public Strategies is a public affairs firm dedicated to advancing the good work of nonprofits and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RK is a minority-certified firm that specializes in the dynamic intersection between business and government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Buckingham Search is a full-service recruitment agency dedicated to connecting the top accounting, audit, tax, HR, and sales talent with companies that know the value of a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chicago Legal Search, celebrating its 37th anniversary this year, is focused on attorney placement in the Chicagoland area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tuft & Associates is recognized as a leading executive search firm in healthcare and trade associations, community service organizations, nonprofits and higher ed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Success in government affairs is based on the five Ps: People, Policy, Procedure, Politics, and Perception.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Point of Difference Strategies is a government-affairs agency, bringing together public sector experience, legal expertise, and a deep connection to diverse communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astor Professional Search is a premier Chicago-based legal recruiting firm with services extending nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Daley Strategy finds solutions to complex lobbying matters before the Federal Government, State of Illinois and City of Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We draw on decades of legal, regulatory, lobbying, political and public affairs experience to protect and advance businesses in heavily regulated industries such as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Madison Street Search is a boutique Finance & Accounting staffing firm that gets excited about matching dynamic candidates with forward-thinking employers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We specialize in staffing Finance & Accounting, Administration, Operations, Marketing, Human Resources and Legal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The recruiters at Gunther Group LLC have personally assisted over 300 attorneys secure positions in law firms, companies, and other organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Roosevelt Group is a full-service government affairs consultancy with decades of experience in legislative and administrative advocacy solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ChiTech Resources is your start-to-finish staffing solution that connects senior-level leaders with growth-oriented organizations resulting in success for all involved.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GPG Strategies, LLC, led by Michael Axelrod, is a boutique public affairs and government relations firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1818 is an Illinois law firm that works on administrative law issues and lobbies State and local governments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: lobbying recruitment 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 lobbying recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of lobbying recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name lobbying recruitment 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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Lobbying recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 53 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 lobbying recruitment 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 “lobbying recruitment 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 lobbying recruitment 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 lobbying recruitment 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, 159 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 28, 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.
Lobbying recruitment firms by metro in the United States
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Washington410
- Lobbying recruitment firms in New York161
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Sacramento72
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Los Angeles71
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Atlanta63
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Austin61
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Denver43
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Houston43
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Boston40
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Dallas40
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Phoenix40
- Lobbying recruitment firms in San Francisco30
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Albany26
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Arlington26
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Columbus26
- Lobbying recruitment firms in Tallahassee25
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 lobbying recruitment 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 lobbying recruitment firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 53 lobbying recruitment 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?
Slayton Search Partners, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most lobbying recruitment firms?
Washington leads the United States with 410 headquartered companies, followed by New York (161) and Sacramento (72). Chicago has 53.
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 159 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 53 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 28, 2026.
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About this data
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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