Chicago friends, family and co-workers were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of actress Lindsey Pearlman last week when she was found deceased in her car near a popular Lo...
Legendary Chicago Marketing and Advertising “GOAT” and Producer Joel Goldsmith passed away earlier this week at age 84, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's Disease.
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Teamsters Local 727 asks for your support for the family of Tamiko Talbert-Fleming, wife of Local 727 Pepsi member Alfonzo Fleming, who lost her life on Friday, January 16, 20...
The Chicago production family was stunned and saddened to learn that 44-year-old Producer and Post-Production Supervisor, Katie Hoban passed away suddenly at the beginning of t...
Chicago native and longtime ESPN Chicago Bears reporter Jeff Dickerson passed away on Tuesday of colon cancer complications at age 44.
Dickerson’s wife, Caitlin, die...
Director/Producer Richard J. Kutok passes at age 79. His talents span over three decades in working with a wide spectrum of companies through TV production and marketing.
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I handed Scott Jacobs his first portable video camera at Videopolis in 1974. He was on leave from reporting at the Chic...
Nine time Emmy award winner Allison Payne, the former anchor at WGN, passed away earlier this month at age 57, her former employer announced over the weekend.
Payne was wit...
Veronica Wolski, a Chicago activist and well-known QAnon supporter who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, died of the virus early Monday.
The Chicago woman, at ...
Linda Mensch, Chicago entertainment attorney at the firm Mandell Menkes LLC, and board member with A Safe Haven, the homelessness prevention organization, died last week in a h...
He played a pivotal role in Chicago's advertising resurgence in the 1980s when he helped open the office for Ogilvy. We cheered him then, now we mourn his loss. Former advertis...
The Chicago film community is sadden by the loss of film pioneer Jeff Marpé, executive producer, director and founder of Line 9 Productions who passed away suddenly on July 14...
Kevin Clark, who played high-strung drummer Freddy Jones (aka “Spazzy McGee”) in the 2003 comedy School of Rock, was killed in an accident earlier this morning. He was 32....
Emmy Award winner Charles Grodin has passed away at age 86 in his home in Wilton, Connecticut. His death, from bone marrow cancer, was confirmed to NPR by his son, actor Nichol...
AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award winner Helmut Jahn, a prominent German modernist/postmodernist architect who designed an Illinois state government building (James R. T...
Michael Apted, producer, writer and actor, and one of the most prolific film directors of his generation has died at age 79.
Born in 1941 in Aylesbury, England, Apted had an...
Dirk Wales 1931 - 2020
In true dramatic fashion, on November 27th Dirk Wales moved on to his next great adventure. He was 89 years young.
Dirk was born in New York c...
Ed Murray, Bill Murray's oldest brother and the inspiration for the film Caddyshack has died.
Ed, the oldest of the Murray boys, was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Luci...
2020 has taken so many legends from us. Reel Chicago is sad to report that iconic newsman Joel Daly, who spent nearly 40 years at ABC affiliate WLS, died today at around 5:30 ...
Gale “Kansas Comet” Sayers, Legendary Chicago Bears running back who’s book the 1971 movie Brian’s Song was based on, died today. He was 77.
His death was announced ...
