Merton G. Silbar Public Relations (MGS) has over 40 years of experience in Publicity, Strategic Communications, Event Marketing and Promotions, on a local and national level, for clients in a variety of industries including non-profit, association, hospitality, sports and corporate. The agency, founded in 1968 by Merton G. Silbar, is currently based in Libertyville, IL after spending the last 36 years in Glenview, IL. The agency maintains a suite of offices with several professional Public Relations practitioners on staff to serve a myriad of clients in a variety of fields. The agency has established a solid reputation for creativity, honesty, and aggressiveness. Many of the firm's programs created for clients are among the most well-known in the Chicagoland market. The agency serves many clients in various fields from commercial to non-profit, from hotels to sports, from education to associations. The agency has wide experience in national media contacts and has amassed a considerable contact list for media, political and business executives in the Chicagoland and Illinois marketplace. Noteworthy in the agency’s servicing of restaurant (and all) clients is the ability to generate free exposure by creating ideas and promotions that competing agencies have not undertaken, as well as linking with current events to generate media exposure, a marketing ingredient again for the most part ignored by other PR firms.