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Columnist: Barbara Roche

Celebrating three Chicago-made Thanksgiving films
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Celebrating three Chicago-made Thanksgiving films

By Barbara Roche Nov 26, 2025
Chicago has been the backdrop for several memorable holiday productions, and when it comes to Thanksgiving films, three titles consistently rise to the top. All are connected i...
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Chicago creatives celebrate AICP Awards Tour finale (picture gallery)
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Chicago creatives celebrate AICP Awards Tour finale (picture gallery)

By Barbara Roche Nov 22, 2025
Chicago hosted the final stop of the AICP Awards Tour on Thursday evening, bringing friends, co-workers, and colleagues together at the Old Post Office, for an evening that ble...
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From Oz to Wicked: How Chicago paved the road to Emerald City
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From Oz to Wicked: How Chicago paved the road to Emerald City

By Barbara Roche Nov 20, 2025
Chicago is where the yellow brick road truly begins, shaping Oz, inspiring Emerald City, and paving the way for Wicked When Wicked: For Good arrives in theaters, audiences w...
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Can Yellowstone pull off a downtown Chicago lookalike?
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Can Yellowstone pull off a downtown Chicago lookalike?

By Barbara Roche Nov 19, 2025
Can the newest spinoff of the Yellowstone series succeed in turning Dallas into downtown Chicago? A new Yellowstone spinoff centered on Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler is still ...
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Chicago drama Moses the Black lands in theaters January 30
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Chicago drama Moses the Black lands in theaters January 30

By Barbara Roche Nov 19, 2025
Moses the Black arrives in theaters nationwide on January 30, 2026, bringing a gritty, Chicago rooted story of reckoning and redemption to the big screen. The film comes fro...
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Chicago-made ‘Exes of Christmas Past’ now streaming 
  • CHICAGO MADE

Chicago-made ‘Exes of Christmas Past’ now streaming 

By Reel Chicago Nov 19, 2025
The holiday romance 'Exes of Christmas Past' began streaming November 16, 2025 on major free platforms. Holiday romance Exes of Christmas Past brings a Midwest twist to seas...
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Real life One Chicago crossover as cast members share a day off
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Real life One Chicago crossover as cast members share a day off

By Barbara Roche Nov 18, 2025
A real life One Chicago crossover brings together cast members from Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire Marina Squerciati took a break from Intelligence this weekend and gathered ...
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IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity
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IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
Chicago’s film community is kicking off the holiday season with the return of the 3rd Annual Film Workers’ Holiday Market, hosted by the IATSE Local 476 Women’s Committee...
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Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps
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Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
As 2025 enters its final stretch, cameras continue to roll across Chicago. Network series, streamers, indie features, and commercial shoots will be keeping crews busy through t...
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Pope names his four favorite films – one was made in Chicago
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Pope names his four favorite films – one was made in Chicago

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
The Pope has invited a special audience with global filmmakers and actors, the Chicago-born pontiff highlights cinema’s power to inspire empathy and reveals his four all-time...
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IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center
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IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center

By Barbara Roche Nov 14, 2025
Governor J.B. Pritzker joined leadership from IATSE Local 2 and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on Thursday to cut the ribbon on the union’s new ...
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Did Operation Midway Blitz make Chicago safer?
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Did Operation Midway Blitz make Chicago safer?

By Barbara Roche Nov 14, 2025
As violent crime continues to drop across Chicago, the federal immigration enforcement surge launched earlier this year, known as Operation Midway Blitz, is drawing new questio...
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Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey
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Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey

By Barbara Roche Nov 12, 2025
Across more than three decades, Oliver Platt has quietly assembled one of the most significant resumés in Chicago film and television. Before Oliver Platt became the steady...
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Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production
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Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
For more than four decades, Chicago Studio City (CSC) has stood as one of the most enduring and influential production hubs in the Midwest. The family-run operation has helped ...
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LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight
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LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
As Chicago P.D. enters Season 13, LaRoyce Hawkins continues to shape Kevin Atwater into one of the series’ most grounded, steadily evolving characters. What began as a suppor...
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Harrison Ford’s Chicago roots come full circle
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Harrison Ford’s Chicago roots come full circle

By Barbara Roche Nov 4, 2025
Harrison Ford returned to Chicago this week not as the world-famous actor audiences associate with Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Dr. Richard Kimble, but as a hometown kid coming ...
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Chicago-made horror films for a Halloween fright night
  • CHICAGO MADE

Chicago-made horror films for a Halloween fright night

By Barbara Roche Oct 31, 2025
Who doesn't love a good scary movie on Halloween night? Bring out the stash of Halloween candy and popcorn balls because we’ve rounded up some of the best horror films shot i...
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Illinois  Film Tax Incentives strengthened in newly passed legislation
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Illinois Film Tax Incentives strengthened in newly passed legislation

By Barbara Roche Oct 31, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: The Illinois Film Tax Incentives bill has passed legislation. The long wait ends with a much-needed win for the industry. Illinois lawmakers have passed a sig...
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Chicago celebrates 50 Years of Siskel & Ebert
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Chicago celebrates 50 Years of Siskel & Ebert

By Barbara Roche Oct 30, 2025
The city that launched the most influential duo in American film criticism is marking a major milestone this fall. The Chicago Film Office and the Department of Cultural Affair...
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Rob Riley, Chicago actor and Second City veteran, dies at 80
  • In memoriam

Rob Riley, Chicago actor and Second City veteran, dies at 80

By Barbara Roche Oct 30, 2025
We're just hearing about the death of Rob Riley, Chicago actor, writer, director, improviser, singer, and teacher, a quintessential Chicago multi-hyphenate whose career embodie...
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