Life goes on. Even at DraftFCB/Chicago. No one needs to be told that the ad shop — which not that long ago could lay claim to being the city’s largest — has be...
We’ve said it many times before. And no matter how often we say it, the truth doesn’t change. The past decade has not been kind to the Chicago advertising commun...
Let us, for a moment, turn our attention to Charles Barkley. We all know who he is. He’s a former pro basketball player who found a life after life on the court as a TV ...
What’s next? A couture line of advertising-inspired fashion? That’s the sort of question one finds oneself asking in the wake of the news this week that Leo Bur...
Beer advertising needed a jolt. And Jim Larmon, the chief creative officer at Cavalry/Chicago, has delivered a big one. With the unveiling on Sunday of the new agency’s ...
People come. And people go. And at Young & Rubicam/Chicago, one chief creative officer came and another went in very short order this week. Very short orde...
Does foreign really work in Chicago? That’s the burning question that is likely to be answered in the not too distant future as we watch how things fare for two high-pro...
The One Club is coming to Chicago. Considered by many in the ad world, who consider such things to be one of the most prestigious organizations devoted to spotlighting creativit...
Let’s hear it for the little guys. If it wasn’t for the little guys — by that we mean the smaller shops that are part of the warp and woof of the local ad industry â...
Taste. Style. Both are lovely words. Though hardly ones we would — in the past — have commonly associated with the Illinois Lottery. After all, how ma...
Paul Brourman added a new top executive to the Sponge/Chicago staff roster on Monday. J.T. Mapel, Brourman’s former coworker at DDB/Chicago, will become Sponge’s new p...
What’s in a name? Not enough to keep it apparently, if you’re David Jones, CEO of the Paris-based holding company Havas. This week, Jones announced his daring decision...
Let’s put it this way. It wasn’t a good sign. Quietly. Ever so quietly, the deed was done. Not in the dark of night, exactly. But quietly. So as not ...
Circa 2012, it’s a whole new world at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The city’s world-renowned opera company has over the past couple of years begun to completely transform its app...
There they were Sunday morning. A couple of hundred people gathered around the staircase inside the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. They we...
What would any successful event be without a useful post-mortem? And that post-mortem is what the Pompous Society eagerly convened Tuesday night at the Farmhouse, a Midwes...
It was a great party. Tasty passed hors d’oeuvres. Wine in genuine glass goblets. Fun speech. And a lively group of people. Indeed, the best we could h...
The Chicago Bears are back in business. And once again, the question no doubt uppermost in the minds of the team’s legions of fans is whether the Bears will make it to t...
Finally. At last. What had seemed an interminable wait is over. The long talked about — but slow to materialize — speakers series promised by the Chic...
Tom Ungar of The Ungar Group/Chicago just may be the biggest mensch there is in Chicago’s advertising community. We first discovered Ungar himself, his agency and his shop’s...
