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Following a consistent trend of growth over the past few years, insurance exchange GoHealth recently leased a 42,000-square foot building in the River North neighborhood. This expansion was announced just nine months after a 650-person expansion and two years after a $50 million investment from Minneapolis-based Norwest Equity Partners.
GoHealth, a developer of web-based sales and online insurance marketing tools for the health insurance industry, currently employs 1,000 people in Chicago.
GoHealth has matched more than 2 million people with insurance coverage. It works with more than 300 health insurance carriers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, and more than 20,000 licensed agents across the country.
It recently announced a partnership with private exchange platform Empowered Benefits—in addition to already working with Walgreens to offer its services on the pharmacy retail giant’s website—and was named a finalist for Built In Chicago’s 2014 Moxie Award for Breakthrough Digital Company of the Year.
Then came word of GoHealth’s office expansion in a building right behind its current River North headquarters. GoHealth, which declares it is in the midst of a “supersonic hiring spree,” will move in by October and move out by 2019.
“The technology economy is thriving, particularly in the health IT space, and this is due in no small part to the success of companies like GoHealth,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a release last November. “GoHealth is creating the jobs of tomorrow and I am pleased that they are finding and training Chicagoans to fill those positions and shape the economic future of this important industry.”
