The Chicago-area middle market is composed of 6,400 companies that employ 1.9 million people and generate $373 billion in annual revenues. Overall, the Chicago-area middle market employs 25.3% of all private-sector employees in the area.
In 2018, respondents included 829 executives from the Midwest and 222 executives from the Chicago metropolitan area. We combined the quarterly data from the Chicago-area companies to provide an overview of Chicagoland’s middle market performance in 2018 and a summary of the outlook for 2019.