Prior Events & Award Winners

Each year, the Golden Trumpet Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of Chicago area public relations professionals. These coveted awards are presented for excellence in planning, creativity, and execution.

Congratulations to all of our Award Winners! Summaries from our most recent events can be found below.

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2019 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Golden Trumpet Awards, the most prestigious awards program in the Midwest, honoring distinguished individual achievement in public relations, marketing, and communications... read more

2017 Golden Trumpet Awards

While the annual Golden Trumpet Awards recognizes the outstanding achievements of Chicago area public relation professionals, five award winners receive special recognition with PCC‘s top awards. All the awards were presented during PCC’s 58^th Annual Golden Trumpets Awards dinner on June 1, 2017, at the Palmer House Hilton... read more

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2016 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Publicity Club of Chicago honored the Midwest and Chicagoland's most creative and successful public relations campaigns at its 57^th Annual Golden Trumpet Awards gala in June 2016, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago... read more

2015 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago hon­ored the Mid­west and Chicagoland’s most cre­ative and suc­cess­ful pub­lic rela­tions cam­paigns at its 56th Annual Golden Trum­pet Awards gala on June 4, 2015, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago... read more

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2014 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago hosted it’s 55^th Annual Golden Trum­pet Awards on June 4, which hon­ored the most cre­ative and suc­cess­ful pub­lic rela­tions cam­paigns of 2013.   Over 500 atten­dees enjoyed a night of cel­e­brat­ing accomplishments... read more

2013 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago (PCC) hon­ored the city’s most cre­ative and suc­cess­ful PR cam­paigns at its 54^th Annual Golden Trum­pet Awards gala tonight. The PCC also hon­ored Christie Hefner, exec­u­tive chair­man of Canyon Ranch Enter­prises, and for­mer chair­man and CEO of Play­boy Enter­prises, Inc. with a Spe­cial Award of Honor, and bestowed Life­time Achieve­ment Awards on two promi­nent com­mu­ni­ca­tions professionals... read more

2012 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago (PCC) pre­sented Golden Trum­pet and Sil­ver Trum­pet Awards today to win­ners in 20 cat­e­gories at its 53^rd Annual Golden Trum­pet Awards. The PCC also announced the win­ners of its four most pres­ti­gious awards, cho­sen from Golden Trum­pet Award win­ners, and hon­ored a promi­nent Chicago busi­ness­woman with the organization’s Life­time Achieve­ment Award... read more

2011 Golden Trumpet Awards

The Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago, the pre­mier com­mu­ni­ca­tions indus­try asso­ci­a­tion in Chicago, announced the year’s best of the best in Chicago pub­lic rela­tions at the 52^nd annual Golden Trum­pet Awards last Fri­day, May 6 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago... read more

2010 Golden Trumpet Awards

Pre­sen­ters Nancy Loo, Chicago broad­cast jour­nal­ist and blog­ger, and Jim Williams, CBS 2 reporter and Week­end Evening News co-anchor, joined hun­dreds of Mid­west pub­lic rela­tions and com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als and their clients at Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago’s 51^st annual Golden Trum­pet Awards May 7 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago... read more

2009 Golden Trumpet Awards

Pre­sen­ters Dean Richards, WGN-TV enter­tain­ment reporter & critic, and Bill Zwecker, feature/entertainment reporter and film critic, joined hun­dreds of Mid­west pub­lic rela­tions and com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als and their clients at Pub­lic­ity Club of Chicago’s 50th annual Golden Trum­pet Awards in May at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago... read more