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Companies hiring in Chicago, IL

833 companies have open roles located in Chicago, IL in this batch. The table shows the top 10, ranked by roles in the city. A company can rank here while its headquarters is in another city.

Batch of Sep 29, 2026

Companies ranked: 833
Shown free: 10
#1 open roles in city: 187

Batch of Sep 29, 2026

Top 10 companies

Companies hiring in Chicago, IL, top 10
#	Company	Open roles in Chicago, IL	Share of its roles	Open roles, all locations	Employees	Top teams hiring
1	Chicago Public Schoolscps.edu	187	100%	187	38,522	-
2	Rush University Medical Centerrush.edu	161	94.2%	171	12,678	-
3	Dollar Generaldollargeneral.com	83	0.2%	47,969	158,000	Sales, Retail
4	Northwestern Medicinenm.org	81	27.9%	290	24,080	-
5	Ethosaskethos.com	76	6.1%	1,248	463	-
6	Targettarget.com	69	0.9%	7,339	185,926	Retail, Sales
7	Capital Onecapitalone.com	61	6%	1,024	60,833	Machine learning, Engineering
8	Northern Trust Corporationnortherntrust.com	53	33.3%	159	35,000	Accounting, Engineering
9	Uillinoisuillinois.edu	46	55.4%	83	2,422	-
10	Accentureaccenture.com	46	1.8%	2,592	738,000	Engineering, Finance

Showing the top 10 of 833 companies ranked in Chicago, IL. The Signal API returns all of them.

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One search call returns the hiring-velocity signal for each company: open roles, headcount and the 30-day change. Add company_domains or industries and rank the companies your own way.

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curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/search \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"signal_types":["hiring-velocity"],"limit":100}'

Showing the top 10 of 833 companies ranked in Chicago, IL. The Autobound Signal API returns every row: POST /v1/companies/search with the body above. The MCP server is at https://mcp.autobound.ai/mcp (sign in with OAuth). A free account has 1,000 credits.

Questions about this ranking

Are these companies based in Chicago, IL?

Not always. The ranking counts open roles located in Chicago, IL, from the job locations in each company's hiring-velocity signal. A company based in another city ranks here when it hires in Chicago, IL.

How are companies hiring in Chicago, IL ranked?

By the number of open roles in Chicago, IL, then by open roles as a percent of headcount. 833 companies qualify in the batch of Sep 29, 2026, and this page shows the top 10.

How do I get every company hiring in Chicago, IL?

Call POST /v1/companies/search with signal_types: ["hiring-velocity"] and read data.locations on each signal to filter by city. Search costs 2 credits per company returned. A new account gets 1,000 free credits.

How this list is built

Source: Autobound Signal API: hiring-velocity
Method: Companies in the latest weekly hiring-velocity batch with at least 50 employees and 5 open roles, ranked by open roles located in each US city, which is where the jobs are, not where the company is based. Staffing and recruiting firms are excluded.
Data as of: Sep 29, 2026

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