Late Monday afternoon, J.C. Penney announced its president Michael Francis was immediately departing the company. Francis was wished well in an official statement. And that was ...
It was a lovely evening for a graduation. It really was. Nearly 100 people gathered on the verandah at the Museum of Contemporary Art Wednesday night for the formal gradua...
The changes keep on coming at the Northstar Lottery Group, the private management entity Illinois governor Pat Quinn selected in the fall of 2010 to run the Illinois Lottery.&nb...
If Cameron Mackintosh can pull it off, he certainly will have achieved the greatest marketing coup of this or any year in the movie business — a business that has, in America ...
The BIG art event in Chicago this summer is a major retrospective of the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The exhibition has just opened at the Art Institute of Chicag...
He may not be Chicago’s glitziest advertising executive. And certainly not its most egomaniacal. But like the little engine that could, president and executiv...
Veteran Chicago creative executive Joe Burke, best known for his award-winning "Is It In You?" campaign for Gatorade, is set to join Marc USA/Chicago as executive creative direc...
Two weeks after Emily Barr abruptly resigned as general manager of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, the station’s late news is set to retain its longtime No. 1 position among loc...
Whimsical. What a lovely word. But trust us — when applied to television advertising — “whimsical” is among the toughest tricks to pull off with much success...
Well that didn’t take long. The current push to turn around and reinvent J.C. Penney is fast proving to be one whopper of a fiasco. JCP, as it’s now referre...
When opportunity presents itself, Chicago advertising executives Mark Modesto and John Immesoete apparently believe you should go for it. And go for it they have. Barely seven m...
When we heard Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago had picked up the Cedar Fair amusement parks advertising and public relations account, our first thought was “wow!” What a great ...
How many hits can we take? Year after year, for more than a decade, Chicago’s ad industry has suffered body blow after body blow — leaving most to wonder how...
Batter up! Amid reports that private manager Northstar Lottery Group isn’t making the revenue numbers it brashly told Illinois officials it could hit, the Illinois Lotte...
Nobody puts more mirth into their marketing initiatives than the trio of Smithe brothers — Tim, Mark and Walter — who preside over the well-known local furniture store chain...
The news was hardly shocking. To us anyway. Late yesterday, it was revealed — once again — that top executives at cable news channel CNN are wringing their hands...
The Jacobs Agency/Chicago has baked up a new outdoor campaign to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Chicago’s well-known baked goods institutions, Turano Baking Co....
The news couldn’t have been more devastating. At 10:30 Tuesday morning DraftFCB/Chicago president Michael Fassnacht picked up his phone and discovered MillerCoors chief market...
How depressing. For several weeks we studiously avoided watching the pilot for “The Pitch,” the new AMC cable series that takes us inside the ad industry to see how ag...
Like it or not, the Internet and its seemingly infinite possibilities for marketing products have been all the rage in the advertising world for years. So for we jaded types who...
