Draftfcb has laid off the largest number of employee at one time with its cut of 10% of the Chicago workforce, or 100 jobs out of the agency’s estimated 1,000 employees. ...
A FIRST FOR THE REEL! After years of managing the Reel solo, I am delighted that industry pro Nancy Reid has joined the Reel as VP/development.In that role, Nancy will spe...
McGarryBowen's new business bonanza continued Wednesday. The agency's New York office won the high-profile and prestigious United Airlines advertising account. Accor...
OPRAH SAYS SHE’S CONSUMED with management and programming problems for her OWN cable network, but there’s a lovely honor ahead to take her mind off her business concerns.&nb...
INVITING MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL to speak at a Chicago Ad Federation luncheon incubated last January, when the CAF’s Speakers Series committee convened to discuss potential s...
A REASON WHY Illinois loves those big Hollywood films that show up every year or so. The Michael Bay-directed Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, dropped $24 million here last sum...
THE LATE MICKEY GROSSMAN'S many friends, colleagues and clients can share their stories and feelings about him on tape, courtesy of his good friends, casting directors Mickie Pa...
AT LONG LAST – Cinespace Studios will officially open during a ground-breaking ceremony on a date to be set during the week of May 9 -- nearly 18 months after its planned pur...
“CHICAGO CODE” creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan, who was honored at the Hugo Awards last week, told guests that the show’s ratings for the next three weeks will ...
Legendary filmmaker John Hughes, who singlehandedly created and sustained Chicago's film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, died of a heart attack Aug. 6, while in Manhattan, whe...
Chicago ad agencies have been increasingly and conspicously MIA in national trade publications. Either agency PR departments are out for coffee, or they are non-existent.
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by Ed M. Koziarski
This is the second of a two-part report.
BEACON ENTERTAINMENT INC.
5125 Blodgett, Ste. 218, Downer's Grove
Joel David Swiney, 630/663-9956
Based in Downer's...
Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatr...
The new Sloppy Seconds screening series from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) kicks off Feb. 4 with Todd Verow's pioneering digital feature "Little Shots of Happines...
Editor Scott Taradash spent two years and close to $50,000 of his own money to produce "Honeyboy," a feature length doc about Chicago blues legend David "Honeyboy" Edwardsby. Th...
