Industries › Medical Device › Chicago
If you sell to Chicago companies, your market is 248,519 business locations across 13 counties, and 13,807 of them have 50–499 employees. Sapper turns that list into booked meetings, phone first.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physician offices | 6,369 | 82,804 | 243 | 12 | +377 |
| Outpatient care centers | 1,591 | 27,929 | 106 | 0 | +95 |
| Hospitals | 146 | 171,679 | 37 | 81 | −8 |
| Medical & diagnostic labs | 601 | 10,756 | 21 | 4 | +97 |
| Dental offices | 4,881 | 30,767 | 17 | 0 | −37 |
Where to start: In Chicago, the second-deepest mid-size list is outpatient care centers (106), after physician offices (243). Physician offices grew most: +377 locations from 2022 to 2023, ahead of medical & diagnostic labs (+97). Acute care hospitals in the metro include Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Northshore University Healthsystem – Evanston Hospital, Mt Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Advocate Trinity Hospital, West Suburban Medical Center, Macneal Hospital (CMS).
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook, IL | 134,513 | 7,842 | 16,621 | 19,166 |
| DuPage, IL | 34,121 | 2,115 | 3,933 | 4,946 |
| Lake, IL | 20,076 | 1,097 | 2,301 | 2,817 |
| Will, IL | 17,085 | 723 | 2,123 | 1,757 |
| Kane, IL | 13,537 | 708 | 1,314 | 1,492 |
Where the market sits: Cook County and DuPage County hold 67.9% of the metro’s business locations across 13 counties. Cook County counts 19,166 professional services locations, against 4,946 in DuPage County.
The metro has 360 medical, dental and hospital equipment wholesaler locations. That is the field competing for time with Chicago’s administrators and department heads.
What wins: naming the buyer’s problem in their words, then asking one question. A list of services sounds like everyone else in Chicago.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a medical device company, the list starts with care setting: hospital, physician office, outpatient center or lab. Then product fit and who buys in that setting. In Chicago, a first pass could start with the 243 mid-size physician offices locations and the 106 in outpatient care centers. How appointment setting works →
The 13-county Chicago metro has 248,519 business locations. 13,807 have 50–499 employees and 792 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in physician offices (243), followed by outpatient care centers (106).
Titles to test first include medical and health services managers. The metro has 16,680 of them, plus 3,250 purchasing managers. The final titles depend on what you sell, and you approve the list before anyone calls.
Nearby markets: Medical Device in South Bend (73 mi), Medical Device in Milwaukee (83 mi) and Medical Device in Madison (123 mi).
Abstrakt, Sapper’s parent company, covers Chicago contractors and home-service companies on its Chicago page.
