Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Publishing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Publishing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Illinois Publishing Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Tribune Publishing
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Tribune Publishing Company, is a diversified media and marketing-solutions company.
Reverb.com
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Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear.
tastytrade
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Tastytrade is a financial media company that offers trade and finance-related edutainment content for traders and investors.
Tackle AI
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Tackle AI is an algorithms and neural network that automatically discover data on any type of document or image.
hiitide
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The hiitide builds technology and services that help authors virtually engage with new readers, for good.
Cottage Door Press
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Cottage Door Press is publishes high-quality children’s books and believes that reading is learning! Beautiful books and gifts for babies.
ePublishing
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ePublishing offers publishers and media companies with SaaS content management, community, and e-commerce solutions.
Scholastica
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Scholastica is a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools.
Tribune Media
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Tribune Media is home to diverse portfolio of tv and digital properties driven by quality news, entertainment, and sports programming.
FanFueled
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FanFueled Engagement Systems empower brands to build, congregate, mobilize and monetize fan communities.
ReadOz
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Tens of thousands of loyal users come to ReadOz every day to read free and paid publications.
McMaster-Carr
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McMaster-Carr develops products that are used to maintain, repair, and operate manufacturing plants and large commercial facilities.
Becker’s Hospital Review
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Becker’s Hospital Review is a monthly publication that offers up-to-date business and legal news related to hospitals.
Dividend.com
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Dividend.com is a dedicated to dividend stock investing. We provide proprietary stock ratings, tools and news on dividend stocks.
Sycamore Media
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Sycamore Media Holdings is a media startup that focuses on promoting entrepreneurship
WOW
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WOW is an online content provider in entertainment, health, technology, food, lifestyle, family, sports, and finance.
Page Foundry
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Page Foundry provides a white-label content platform that enables customer acquisition, engagement and retention.
Ragan
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Ragan Communications is a media and training company educating and supporting more than 200,000 communicators and marketers worldwide.
FanSided Inc
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FanSided is one of the fastest growing network of fandom-focused sports, entertainment and lifestyle sites on the Internet.
Mr. Skin
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Mr.Skin.com is a nudity blog focused on celebrities.
readeo
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Readeo offers a solution that combines children’s books with video chat to create a shared reading experience.
World Book
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World Book is an online retailer for a variety of different books and encyclopedias.
COS
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COS is a Chicago-based online music publication that reports on all of music’s breaking news, in addition to hyping new artists and more.
Alinea Restaurant
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Alinea Restaurant Combines food with science and art, provides photo galleries of the cuisine and restaurant, staff profiles, and menu.
Alliance for Audited Media
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AAM powers transparency and collaboration between North America’s leading media professionals.
JAMA Network
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JAMA Network offers enhanced access to vital medical research, reviews, and viewpoints that matter the most.
System Trader Success
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System Trader Success Dedicated to the fascinating world of automated trading.
Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus
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Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus is a daily newspapers across the Mississippi River in Illinois.
PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism and analysis.
FGS Inc.
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FGS is a printing company that provides document creation and print services.
Newslocker
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Newslocker, News by relevance and topic around the world
Real Clear Science
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Real Clear Science is an online resource that offers opinion, news, analysis, and videos related to science.
EveryBlock
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EveryBlock is a neighborhood news and discussion site that contains a mix of conversations, news and civic data from U.S. cities.
The National Law Review
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The National Law Review is an online legal publication website focusing on breaking legal news for business and legal professionals.
ETA hand2mind
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ETA hand2mind support teachers, inspire students, engage parents, and champion learning by doing.
Daily Journal
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Daily Journal is a newspapers company that offers advertising and editorial features.
Social News Daily
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Social News Daily is an online platform that offers the latest news on social media networks.
TownNews.com
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TownNews.com provides content management systems (CMS) and revenue solutions for publishers in the media industry.
Veritas Health
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Veritas Health is an online publishing company specialized in patient education.
Cyberhull
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Cyberhull is an IT company that has teams of outsourced software and programming development and involves in data transformation and more.
The Telegraph
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The Telegraph publishes a morning paper seven days a week.
Morris Herald-News
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Morris Herald-News is a weekly publication.
Crain’s Chicago Business
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Crain’s Chicago Business is an online and offline publication l that provides its users with articles and insights related to business.
MTG Media Group
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MTG Media Group is a publishing company specializing in food articles and recipes.
Law Bulletin Media
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Law Bulletin Media is a digital content provider.
Tribune Publishing Company
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Tribune Publishing Company is a printing company that provides cold-web offset printing services.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about risks from nuclear weapons, nuclear energy,
Blogcritics
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Founded in 2002 by Eric Olsen as a group blog publishing mostly reviews, Blogcritics soon grew into a full-fledged, professionally edited
Legal Newsline
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Legal Newsline is an online newswire dedicated to 24/7 coverage of state supreme courts and state attorneys general.
Independent Publishers Group
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Independent Publishers Group is the original and second largest independent book distributor in the United States.
WBEZ
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Public radio station offering public broadcasting feeds, local program schedule, events, listener requests and audio archives.
Hyde Park Herald
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The Hyde Park Herald, Chicago’s oldest community newspaper since 1882.
Intellectual Property Today
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Intellectual Property Today, published monthly since 1994.
Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc.
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Scranton Gillette Communications is a publishing company that imparts equipment and truck management information.
SportsBusiness Journal
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SportsBusiness Journal and Daily, leading publications in the sports business world.
ClickHole
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ClickHole provides the most clickable and irresistibly shareable content anywhere on the internet.
Shaw Suburban Media
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Shaw Media is a Dixon, Illinois-based publisher, of about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa.
Amnet
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Amnet is a leading provider of services and solutions, catering to the needs of businesses for content development and accessibility.
Sourcebooks
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Sourcebooks is a publishing house focused on publishing books under many categories, including romance novels, gift books, and more.
BMWBLOG
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BMWBLOG is an online news magazine that provides BMW-related news, photos, videos, and information about test drives for automobile fans.
Grocery Headquarters
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Grocery Grocery is the channel for food retail in the United States.
Futures Magazine
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Futures Magazine publishes magazines for the derivatives industry.
Bugle Newspapers
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Bugle Newspapers is a publishing company that provides news, sports and lifestyle articles through newspapers and online platforms.
Halfstack Magazine
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Attainable Lifestyle Digital Publication
Alton Daily News
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Alton Daily News is the Riverbend’s one and only community radio station & with studios located in Alton, IL.
SORC’D
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SORC’D the easiest way to capture and recall your online research. Build Stronger Content Faster with Sorc’d.
Knighthouse Publishing
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Knighthouse Publishing is a publishing company offering printing, digital, live events, and social media services.
Liturgy Training Publications
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Liturgy Training Publications is a publisher of liturgical and pastoral materials.
Gold Nugget Publications
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Gold Nugget Publications is a media house that publishes four weekly community newspapers and is for the local community.
Sun Times Media Group
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Sun-Times Media Group is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.
Field Notes
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I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.
ArtistData
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ArtistData offers a musician’s syndication platform that allows artists to synchronize once uploaded information across multiple platforms.
Imagination Publishing
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Imagination Publishing is a custom publishing and content marketing agency that develops integrated marketing strategies.
Reverse Mortgage Daily
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Reverse Mortgage Daily provides breaking news and information to professionals in the industry.
Prime Publishing LLC
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Prime Publishing is a publishing company specializing in beauty products and services related content.
Gantec Publishing Solutions
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Gantec publishing solutions is offering editorial services and e-learning solutions for publishing and media sector located in Schaumburg.
Aledo Times Record
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Aledo Times Record is a newspaper and media production company that provides sports and entertainment news.
Human Capital Media
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Human Capital Media (HCM) is an integrated information services and market-intelligence company focused on the business of talent.
Christianity Today
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Christianity Today is a non-profit organization that publishes religion-based content, news and advertisement.
United States Soccer Federation (USSF)
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United States Soccer Federation (USSF) is the official provider of news, information and live feeds on soccer.
PMMI Media Group
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PMMI Media Group is a publishing company providing B2B processing and packaging materials.
discoverGREY
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GREY is a lifestyle brand and magazine that celebrates the leaders and entrepreneurs disrupting their industries.
Journal-Courier
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Journal-Courier is an American daily newspaper published in Jacksonville, Illinois.
DailyTech
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DailyTech is an online magazine which is focused on current and upcoming issues concerning science and technology.
Hypable
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Hypable is an online platform that features articles about the latest in the entertainment arena.
Publications International
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Publications International, Ltd. (PIL) is a publisher of consumer periodicals.
Juggle.com
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Juggle.com, a leading online reference resource.
The Website Flip
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The Website Flip offers tools and resources for all things digital assets and website investments.
Chicago Woman Magazine
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Chicago Woman Magazine is the only magazine and media brand that speaks directly to professional women.
INSTORE
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INSTORE is an online news provider and magazine publisher for the American jewellery business.
Path to Purchase Institute
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Path to Purchase a global association serving the needs of omnichannel retailers, brands and solution providers along the path to purchase.
Kontinent Media Group
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Kontinent Media Group provide information and organizational partnership and support to publishers.
UMI (Urban Ministries, Inc.)
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UMI is a publishing company providing Biblical resources to African American churches.
WATT Global Media
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WATT Global Media provides business content and solutions to the agribusiness industry.
Sagamore Publishing LLC
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For over three decades, Sagamore has provided educational material for the park and recreation industry.
Journal Star
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Journal Star is a newspaper company that provides breaking news, sports, entertainment, and obituaries.
