<p>St. Louis:
A.G. Edwards & Son (Yes it's an Investment Bank).</p>
<p>That's all I know of. Any small boutique banks in STL or Chicago?</p>
<p>Umm Chicago has tons of IBs. It's probably the second best city for IB after New York</p>
<p>Really? I thought the main ones were New York, LA and San Francisco.</p>
<p>I don't understand why people who have never been to Chicago or know much about the city underestimate it so much. Yes Chicago is second to New York. Chicago is probably closer to New York than LA or San Fransisco is to Chicago.</p>
<p>The top 3 Cities for practically anything financially related is New York, Chicago and London.</p>
<p>Who's in Chicago? Well all the Bulge Bracket firms, and way to many more to list.</p>
<p>Try google I'm sure you can find some lists</p>
<p>I did. Didn't really come up with anything. It's hard to find Investment Banks in specific cities.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that Chicago ranks third to NY and San Fran.</p>
<p>Actually Chicago has a great market presence. Lot of banks, HFs, trading firms are there. I mean the CME and CBOE are in Chicago!</p>
<p>"I mean the CME and CBOE are in Chicago!"</p>
<p>And you forget to mention the CBOT which is the biggest futures exchange in the world</p>
<p>yep that too. The point basically is...Chicago is big in the financial world (especially for options/futs marketmaking/HFs/ibank S&T etc)</p>
<p>I'm working in Chicago (financial business) so I'm quick to defend it. I'm not from Chicago and I have been in Several cities including New York and London.</p>
<p>I'm just saying that unless you have been to Chicago or really know any truths about it, I can almost guarentee it's not what you expect. Everybody has such a wrong view of Chicago it's amazing. I mean I always thought of it as a 3nd tier city along with Dallas, Seattle, Boston and the likes. I was dead wrong, I love this city. It's huge, you can walk along skyscrapers for miles and miles. It's clean. Even though New York has cleaned up recently, its' still dirtier and scummier than Chicago.</p>
<p>Chicago is definitally a world class city everyone I talk to from out of state that hasn't been here has the wrong impression, this isn't a cow town, it's a huge beutiful and rich fricking city.</p>
<p>And the weather is pretty good contrary to popular belief.</p>
<p>Well yeah, Chicago has the biggest skyscrapers in the US and is building a lot more/taller ones like the Fordham Tower, Trump Tower and some other ones.</p>
<p>Here is a better question. Are there any I-Banks that have their HQ's in Chicago? I think most of the HQ's are in New York/SF.</p>
<p>Citadel and a couple other notable hedge funds have their HQs in Chi-town.</p>
<p>For HFs>A couple of other does no justice. Basically most of the firms dealing in futs, and options are out there because they need floor presence.</p>
<p>"Basically most of the firms dealing in futs, and options are out there because they need floor presence."</p>
<p>And that is suposed to be something negative? That sounds like a valid logical reason to me.</p>
<p>Can you comeup with a better reason for being in New York? I bet you can't.</p>
<p>When did I say that was something negative haha. Considering I am more of a trading man thats great!</p>
<p>One too many coffees huh</p>
<p>BTW to the OP> I wouldn't consider AG edwards to be an ibank. They are in the personal investment management business.</p>
<p>Goldman, Citi, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, etc. but these are huge corporate monolith investment banks. Be careful though, the investment banking department may not be there. Like in Philadelphia, there are tons of investment banks, but if you look closer, they mostly focus on asset management. It might be the case in Chicago.</p>
<p>Columbia University has a good list of investment banks including boutiques, as does University of Chicago. You can easily scan the lists and find those in Chicago. <a href=“http://www.pegasusics.com”>Some Chicago boutique investment banks are leading in certain area.</a></p>