Public Communications Inc.
Partner in the Worldcom Public Relations Group
One East Wacker Dr., #2450, Chicago, IL 60601
312/558-1770; fax: 312/558-5425
ideas@pcipr.com
www.pcipr.com
Celebrating our 5th decade in business. Traditional, digital, social marketing, integrated communications for healthcare, conservation/environment, education, entertainment/culture/sports clients as well as “everything Chicago” clients seeking local and regional exposure; senior counsel for crisis/issues, executive/board consulting, media and presentation coaching; product launch and lifecycle promotions; campaigns and events; websites, online platforms and collateral.
Employees: 51. Founded: 1962.

Agency Statement: Public Communications Inc. provides strategic counsel to clients, whether we're dealing with the most serious and complex issue, a national awareness campaign or the splashiest of events - and we've been doing so for more than 50 years.

Our job is to safeguard reputations and recommend the right way for clients to communicate what they have to say so it is heard and influences their audiences. We are an integrated communications firm, large enough to provide all the communications services a client might require but small enough that the firm's officers are directly involved, hands-on, in each client's program.

PCI is a founding partner of the WORLDCOM Public Relations Group, the world's leading partnership of independently owned public relations counseling firms with more offices in more cities and countries than any multinational firm.

We have a strong concentration of business in healthcare, conservation/environment, education, entertainment/culture/sports and a special category we call “everything Chicago,” a diverse group of clients from tech to nonprofits, entrepreneurs to advocacy groups that want to make their presence known in the metropolitan area and region.

Our clients trust us and stay with us; our business has grown primarily through referrals and word of mouth. More than half of our clients have been with us 10 years or more; 15 and 20+ year relationships are common (and valued).

Our size and the depth of our staff enable us to manage the most sophisticated assignments while allowing us to move quickly, be flexible and change course when it makes sense.

Dorothy Oliver Pirovano, CEO; Jill Allread, pres.; Ruth A. Mugalian, exec. VP; Kathleen Boylan, Leigh Wagner, Mary Erangey, Remi Gonzalez, sr. VPs; Pam Morris, Beth Schlesinger, Wendi Koziol, VPs

Select clients:
Accreditation Assn. for Ambulatory Health Care
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums
American Academy of Dermatology
American Board of Medical Specialties
American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology
American Health Information Management Assn.
American Osteopathic Assn.
American Society for Clinical Pathology
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Society of Home Inspectors
America's Blood Centers
Americas' SAP Users' Group
BloodSource
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Society)
Center for Humans and Nature
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Complete Conference Management
Dying To Do Letterman
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
Illinois Institute of Technology
Infectious Diseases Society of America
John G. Shedd Aquarium
Legoland Discovery Center
Livingston International
Museum of Science and Industry
National Elephant Center
National Lung Cancer Partnership
National Society of Genetic Counselors
NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
Oncall Interactive
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc.
Radiological Society of North America
Rhodia
Riverain Medical
Society of Interventional Radiology
TRU
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
UNICEF Midwest
University of North Carolina Health System
Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy, Infusion and Health Systems
Women Employed