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Top 25 Urban design firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 95 urban design firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,162 professional contacts across them, including 3,447 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers urban design 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 22, 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 urban design firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,958 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 343 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SCB is an architecture, planning, interior and urban design firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Wight & Company, we inspire the human experience through innovative design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC) is a full-service, integrated architecture and design firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SUMAC is an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that promotes sustainability as the key element to increasing the profitability of our clients and partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VOA has joined Stantec, an architecture and engineering firm with more than creative team members across North America and the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 30 years, SINGH + Associates has been meeting and exceeding our clients’ expectations for high quality planning, design and engineering services delivered with care…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Hoerr Schaudt, we design beautiful, purposeful gardens that connect people, site, and season.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is dedicated to the design of high-performance, sustainable architecture on an international scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture is an award winning, full service architecture, interior and planning design firm that practices nationally from its Near North Chicago studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Antunovich Associates is an Architectural, Planning and Interior Design Firm with offices located in Chicago, Washington, D.C, Los Angeles, Austin, and Buffalo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With roots dating back more than 100 years, FitzGerald is a national architecture, interior design, and sustainability firm committed to the creation of exemplary environments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jahn is among the most iconic names in architecture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Good Design Created By Good People By listening to the needs of people, places, and the planet, Bailey Edward collaborates with communities to transform the built environment for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The multifaceted architecture of Pappageorge Haymes Partners speaks to the needs of the evolving urban environment, transforming perceptions about where people work, play, shop…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greenprint Partners is an award-winning consulting firm specializing in community-centered environmental infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Houseal Lavigne is a professional consulting firm specializing in all areas of Community Planning, Urban Design, and Economic Development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Design Lives at KTGY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ross Barney Architects is a Chicago-based architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Civil Engineering | Urban & Rural Planning | Economic Development | Grant Services | Branding & Marketing | Environmental Antero Group is an interdisciplinary firm that integrates…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Award Winning Architecture and Urban Planning Studio based in Chicago” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PALMA is an award-winning international architectural design team that specializes in high performance design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1994, RADA Architects Eco+Design © is an award winning Chicago firm for academic, commercial and institutional clients – private and public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: urban design 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 urban design firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of urban design firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name urban design 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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Urban design firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 95 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 urban design 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 “urban design 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 urban design 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 urban design 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, 3,447 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 22, 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.
Urban design firms by metro in the United States
- Urban design firms in New York280
- Urban design firms in Los Angeles115
- Urban design firms in Seattle103
- Urban design firms in Chicago95
- Urban design firms in San Francisco88
- Urban design firms in Portland81
- Urban design firms in Boston77
- Urban design firms in Atlanta74
- Urban design firms in Denver71
- Urban design firms in Austin68
- Urban design firms in Miami67
- Urban design firms in Houston64
- Urban design firms in Dallas56
- Urban design firms in Washington53
- Urban design firms in San Diego52
- Urban design firms in Philadelphia44
- Urban design firms in Phoenix41
- Urban design firms in Minneapolis40
- Urban design firms in Nashville32
- Urban design firms in Brooklyn30
- Urban design firms in Pittsburgh30
- Urban design firms in Salt Lake City30
- Urban design firms in Berkeley29
- Urban design firms in Irvine29
- Urban design firms in Oakland28
- Urban design firms in Charlotte27
- Urban design firms in San Antonio27
- Urban design firms in Kansas City26
- Urban design firms in New Orleans26
- Urban design firms in Orlando25
- Urban design firms in Tampa25
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 urban design 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 urban design firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 95 urban design 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?
Perkins&will, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most urban design firms?
New York leads with 280 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (115) and Seattle (103).
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 3,447 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 95 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 22, 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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