Home to the headquarters of the powerful American Medical Association (AMA), the country¹s largest physician organization, Chicago is a healthcare powerhouse. Home to the top-rated University of Chicago Medical Center, a Best Hospital, and host to more than 8 Nobel Prize winners (in Medicine), the Windy City abounds in medical talent. Last year, Time magazine ranked the discovery that male circumcision reduced AIDS transmission 51% as the top medical breakthrough of the year and where was the researcher, – Robert Bailey, Ph.D., M.P.H.- from? You guessed it ¬ Chicago.

The University of Illinois at Chicago boasts the largest medical school in the country, with more than 300 med students each year. And the largest health sciences center in the country, too. Will going here make you talented and famous? It¹s no guarantee, but you might at least get to hang out with some smart, great people.

Medical Assistants
- Mean Annual Salary: $29,930
- Number Employed: 8,040

Medical and Health Services Managers
- Mean Annual Salary: $78,940
- Number Employed: 5,750

Biggest Employers - Advocate Health Care
- Rush University Medical Center
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Chicago Shriners Hospital
- Evanston Northwestern Healthcare - Holy Cross Hospital - Sinai Health System

Other Employers of Note
- Astellas Pharma US

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