FOX'S EMPIRE STARS Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will host Taraji and Terrence's White Hot Holidays — which the network is billing as a music and variety spec...

This evening, Nov. 19, 130 Chicago-based musicians whose work and travels often keep them from enjoying for a home cooked holiday dinner, are guests of Music Dealers’ 4th annu...

“MAYA ANGELOU: THE PEOPLE’S POET,” the feature doc being produced by Media Process Group’s Bob Hercules and Keith Walker, will air on PBS’ “American Masters” when ...

HAVAS CHICAGO’S OFFICE at busy Grand and Wabash is stopping traffic (in a good way) with its street level, experiential window display of flashing pink and purple neon lights ...

FCB CHICAGO’S NEW EVP/ECD is Susan Treacy, with more than 20 years of agency creative experience, who moved over from six years as Leo Burnett’s EVP/CD, where she oversaw a ...

IN TUESDAY’S COLUMN I cheerfully wrote that it was good news for local production companies that Kraft Heinz’ forthcoming new agency would not be handling production, which ...

GREENHOUSE, Leo Burnett’s nimble, in-house digital studio is now an official agency offering, having been formed earlier “to meet the demand of content production across a b...

TYLER JAY’S TANDEM, INC. conceptualized and produced another in the series of Grub Hub spots, the latest a video called “Winner Picks Lunch,” now airing national...

OGILVY IS THE NEW AGENCY for Chicago-headquartered Morton Salt, whose iconic logo and “Umbrella girl” mascot is in the process of being reintroduced to the world following a...

CIFF’S INDUSTRY DAYS kick off Oct. 24 with a special Industry Tribute to Gigi Pritzker, CEO of production and financing company Odd Lot Entertainment (OLE), and producer of mo...

SPIKE LEE has no reason to apologize to Chicago politicians for titling his Chicago-set anti-violence feature “Chiraq” and he won’t stop highlighting gun violence in Ameri...

DDB’S KEITH REINHARD, the man who wrote “You deserve a break today” for McDonald’s and went on to help create global holding company Omnicom, will receive the 2015 Lifet...

MEGA COUNTRY STAR TOBY KEITH kicks off the return of WTTW/11’s “Soundstage” on public television stations with Thursday’s first taping at the station’s Grainger Studio...

FREDERICK MENSCH’S FIRST SCREENPLAY to be filmed, the thriller “Nightingale,” could deliver a primetime Emmy for actor David Oyelowo (“Selma”) the solo actor in a one ...

COMMERCIALS FILMING HERE are big, notes Chicago Film Office director Rich Moskal, pointing to Radiant Pictures of LA’s shoot for Toyota night over five nights last week in the...

NEW NAME FOR LIMEGREEN, the cross-cultural marketing agency  founded by Michon Ellis in 2004 in the West Loop is LimeGreen Moroch  as a result of i...

OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS.  The Wachowskis’ Netflix sci-fi series, Sense8, that filmed at Cinespace last summer, has been renewed for a second season, “thanks to fan resp...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEO BURNETT! When Leo Burnett opened his new advertising agency on August 5, 1935, during the Great Depression, he brightened the office with a bowl of re...

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT late and very early Saturday morning, a crew will be shooting aerials and plate shots in Chicago for DC Comics’ sci-fi thriller “Suicide Squad.” Helico...

ACTOR DAVID DASTMALCHIAN, an ensemble member of the Shattered Globe Company and Caffeine Theatre, is in Marvel Studio’s $132 million blockbuster “Ant-Man,” playing Kurt...