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Top 25 Public relations recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States

RevenueBase identified 190 public relations recruitment firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,460 professional contacts across them, including 500 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers public relations 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 5, 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.

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190Companies
1,460Contacts tracked
500Verified emails
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The 25 largest public relations recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 190 public relations recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to public relations recruitment firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202651-200134 contacts →

“Hirewell is a global talent solutions provider that combines domain expert recruiters with modern hiring strategy to deliver people who make a difference.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
2Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5080 contacts →

“Since our beginning in 1985, Slayton Search Partners' strategy has been to focus on possibilities, not limitations.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
3Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026n/a60 contacts →

“Your retained source for executive search!”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
4Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5054 contacts →

“Combining business sense and a 360-degree viewpoint of the current public relations, social media and graphic/video design worlds as well as each of their futures, All Points PR…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202651-20048 contacts →

“Since 1996, Jobplex has served the emerging leader recruiting market, complementing the senior-level retained executive search services provided by our parent company, DHR Global.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
6Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5041 contacts →

“L.C.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
7Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5040 contacts →

“Recruit Forward-Thinking Leaders who Accelerate Growth, Unlock Innovation, and Boost Profitability.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
8Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5035 contacts →

“The Alpha Companies, including Alpha IR Group and Alpha Advisory Group, deliver fully integrated and comprehensive Investor Relations, Communications, Issues & Crisis Management…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
9Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 20261-1028 contacts →

“If you’re like most of our clients, your experience with recruiters is probably one of the following: a) They sent us nobody.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
10Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 20261-1026 contacts →

“Although the recruitment business can be transactional, LMB Associates believes in a collaborative, personalized approach to recruiting, building valued relationships with both…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
11Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5024 contacts →

“Why Roy Talman & Associates?”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
12Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5024 contacts →

“At Employment Process Group we only bring the highest class talent into your recruiting pool.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
13Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5023 contacts →

“Skirt PR is a full-service agency in Chicago dedicated to the practice of specialized personal public relations and concentrating on fashion, beauty and lifestyle.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
14Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5020 contacts →

“Rise Strategy Group is a high stakes public strategy firm.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
15Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202651-20020 contacts →

“Chamberlain is a talent acquisition firm for organizations that seek human capital differentiation.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
16Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5019 contacts →

“Reputation Partners (RP) is a national strategic communications and public relations firm exclusively focused on building, protecting and restoring organizational and leadership…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
17Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 20261-1018 contacts →

“The Silverman Group, Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
18Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 20261-1017 contacts →

“Mekky Media Relations is a boutique public relations agency providing expert guidance in publicity and communications strategies based on trusted experience, innovative ideas and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
19Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5015 contacts →

“For more than four decades, Taylor Johnson has been 100% niched in the real estate industry, bringing a deep knowledge and understanding of our clients’ business to the work we do…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
20Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5015 contacts →

“The Equus Group is a full-service executive search firm offering a highly customized approach to talent acquisition.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
21Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5014 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
22Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5014 contacts →

“At Kappa Search, we believe in the power of people.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
23Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5012 contacts →

“Mac Strategies Group is an award-winning strategic communications, public affairs, and government relations firm with offices in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
24Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5012 contacts →

“For more than two decades, Serafin & Associates, Inc,(Serafin) has delivered cutting-edge, full-service communications and public affairs strategies to clients seeking a trusted…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
25Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 202611-5011 contacts →

“Strategies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026

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Public relations recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 5, 2026
34.2%Verified-email coverage
7.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
392.1%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 5, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
140
11-50
42
51-200
7
201-500
1

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 190 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 public relations 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 “public relations 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 public relations 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 public relations 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, 500 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Public relations recruitment firms by metro in the United States

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 public relations 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 public relations recruitment firms are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 190 public relations 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?

Hirewell, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most public relations recruitment firms?

New York leads with 745 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (364) and Chicago (190).

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 500 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 190 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 5, 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.