Columnist: Mike Morgan

Towers Productions’ hit primetime reality series, “Strange Inheritance,” returns for its second season on Fox Business Network (FBN) Wednesday Nov. 11 with a four-epi...

McGarryBowen Chicago is back in the restaurant business, having lost Pizza Hut to Deutsch, New York, by becoming the Olive Garden’s new creative agency of record, after a...

When the Chicago Bulls players jog into the court at the United Center to the roar of the crowd tonight, Oct. 27, they will be starting their 50th season of NBA basketball....

October is National Archives Month and if that doesn’t sound as exciting, say, as celebrating October’s National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, National Kick Butt Day or Nati...

Fox is capitalizing on the hit show status of hip hop drama “Empire” that films at Cinespace, with season two 30-second spots selling for around $500,000, and sometimes even...

Starting Sept. 15, the Chicago Creative Cocktail Party (CCCP) will hold its monthly Happy Hour at its new, regular venue, Billy Dec's Rocket Bar & Grill, which fittingl...

It’s nice to have prominent Hollywood filmmakers lighting up Chicago’s independent film scene again — and none is brighter than supernova Adam Leipzig, who launches the IF...

Count on a warm event next January when Tony Weisman, CEO of Digitas, accepts the Silver Medal Award from the Chicago Advertising Federation, for a lifetime of contribution...

Showtime is opening an office at Cinespace Aug. 28 to start production on a pilot for an untitled drama written by Lena Waite (“Dear White People”) and executive produced ...

After three years as Kartemquin’s executive director and executive producer, Justine Nagan has joined American Documentary, Inc. (AmDoc), New York as executive director and e...

Leo Burnett brought back the notable creative team of Gordy Sang and Brian Siedband and named them SVP/CDs on the agency’s new McDonald’s North America account. They also ...

The first union contract between members of radio’s Chicago Public Media (CPM) and SAG-AFTRA was overwhelmingly ratified June 30, after nearly two years of negotiations t...

STIR POST AUDIO crafted the signature sound for Energy BBDO’s new global 5 Gum campaign, “Life Happens in 5,”  that targets Millennials and features them in each of...

“THE CITY AS STUDIO: the State of the Art” is the theme of Chicago Artists Month (CAM) Oct. 1-Nov. 15, inviting local artists and arts organizations to participate in the 2...

HY Connect Chicago’s office, mainly a healthcare agency since 2002, has gone the way of many other independent, medium-sized agencies with its recent sale to Boston-based Myel...

When Otis Gibson’s GERTRUDE global branding and marketing agency was relaunching client I.W. Harper’s bourbon, they brought in a 1928 Ford Model A truck used by bootleggers...

AbelsonTaylor SVP/ECD Stephen Neale spent a week of nine-hour days judging global entries for the second annual two-day Cannes Lions Health Festival (June 19-20) and the openi...