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Harbor adds Jason Ryan, elevates Steve Perski to lead sound team
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Harbor adds Jason Ryan, elevates Steve Perski to lead sound team

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2025
Harbor is bolstering its award-winning sound division with a series of key creative appointments, reinforcing its leadership in innovation, technology, and premium artistry acr...
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Don Lemon zeroes in on ICE arrests, and Chicago’s pushback
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Don Lemon zeroes in on ICE arrests, and Chicago’s pushback

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2025
Don Lemon has turned his lens on Chicago as federal immigration enforcement intensifies across pockets of the city, and residents mobilize in response. Just last Friday, Reel C...
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Gushers turns ’90s FruitHead into Halloween short film
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Gushers turns ’90s FruitHead into Halloween short film

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2025
Here's a pitch: what if the goofy FruitHead gag from the commercials wasn’t a punchline, but an origin story? Decades after a hex on a bag of Gushers warped a young performer...
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WGN producer forcibly detained in Lincoln Square ICE operation
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WGN producer forcibly detained in Lincoln Square ICE operation

By Reel Chicago Oct 10, 2025
A WGN-TV Emmy Award-winning producer, Debbie Brockman, was violently detained by masked agents believed to be from ICE on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning during an immigr...
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Chicago Med, Fire, and P.D. light up Peacock and prime time
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Chicago Med, Fire, and P.D. light up Peacock and prime time

By Reel Chicago Oct 7, 2025
NBC’s fall is off to a blazing start and One Chicago is fanning the flames. While the network touts early wins across its schedule, the biggest momentum story is on Peacock, ...
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Cat’s Pride & Two by Four make odor… very hard to ignore
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Cat’s Pride & Two by Four make odor… very hard to ignore

By Reel Chicago Oct 7, 2025
Oversized cats, oversized laughs. Chicago’s Two by Four teams with Cat’s Pride on “Breathe Easy,” a storytelling-led campaign that literalizes the two worst parts of li...
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PARAGON levels up its new roster and EP Tom Leonard
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PARAGON levels up its new roster and EP Tom Leonard

By Reel Chicago Oct 7, 2025
PARAGON, the next-gen shop for commercials, cine-docs, and brand content, is widening its creative footprint with a refreshed director lineup and the addition of Executive Prod...
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KFC introduces the big a** wet nap for its original Honey BBQ
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KFC introduces the big a** wet nap for its original Honey BBQ

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2025
KFC is in its comeback bag, and Chicago’s Highdive just dropped the sauciest flex yet: Original Honey BBQ is back starting Oct. 6, and the TV spot literally introduces a gian...
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What are critics saying about Monster: The Ed Gein Story?
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What are critics saying about Monster: The Ed Gein Story?

By Reel Chicago Oct 3, 2025
Season 1 of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology planted its flag with Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a mega-hit that doubled as a cultural lightning rod. Season 2 pi...
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Havas Chicago gives Stanley Steemer its swagger back
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Havas Chicago gives Stanley Steemer its swagger back

By Reel Chicago Oct 2, 2025
Stanley Steemer is done being polite about “clean enough.” The heritage deep-clean brand just teamed with Havas Chicago on a sharp, funny relaunch aimed squarely at younger...
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Former Bear, Jay Cutler, reports to jail for DUI
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Former Bear, Jay Cutler, reports to jail for DUI

By BANG Showbiz Sep 30, 2025
Jay Cutler, the former Chicago Bears quarterback, who has Camden, 13, Jaxon, 11, and Saylor, 9, with his ex-wife, Kristin Cavallari, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor ...
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Campbell’s Chunky, NFL stars crush cravings in new campaign
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Campbell’s Chunky, NFL stars crush cravings in new campaign

By Reel Chicago Sep 30, 2025
Campbell’s Chunky is taking direct aim at hunger with a new platform that treats the brand like a craveable meal, not just a soup. The integrated campaign, titled “Crush Yo...
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Metro by T-Mobile turns price cut into streetwear
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Metro by T-Mobile turns price cut into streetwear

By Reel Chicago Sep 30, 2025
Metro by T-Mobile wants a ten-dollar monthly discount to feel like culture, not math. The carrier’s new “Price Drop Drop” campaign, created by BarkleyOKRP, takes that sav...
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Former Bear writer detained in handcuffs on NYC train
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Former Bear writer detained in handcuffs on NYC train

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2025
Alex O’Keefe, an ex-staff writer for The Bear and political speechwriter, says a routine commute turned confrontational last week when MTA Police detained him on a Metro-No...
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Tootsie Roll revives “How Many Licks” classic for Gen Z and Alpha
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Tootsie Roll revives “How Many Licks” classic for Gen Z and Alpha

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2025
The world may still never know. But it doesn’t hurt to ask again. Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries is bringing back one of candy’s most enduring mysteries with a remas...
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Charlie Sheen is Wild AF and so is his new non-alcoholic beer
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Charlie Sheen is Wild AF and so is his new non-alcoholic beer

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2025
Charlie Sheen is drinking beer but still retaining his sobriety. The actor has entered the non-alcoholic beer space with the launch of Wild AF, a brand he created with the Chic...
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Laughlin Constable PR wins trio of Chicago Industry Honors
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Laughlin Constable PR wins trio of Chicago Industry Honors

By Reel Chicago Sep 25, 2025
Laughlin Constable Public Relations (LCPR), the Chicago- and Milwaukee-based public relations firm, has added three more awards to its growing trophy case. The agency earned tw...
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Christian Bale returns to Chicago for The Bride!
  • FILM

Christian Bale returns to Chicago for The Bride!

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2025
Christian Bale is coming back to Chicago. At least on screen. Warner Bros.’ newly announced feature from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride!, is set in 1930s Chicag...
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Smartphone Free Childhood launches PSA from Tessa Films
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Smartphone Free Childhood launches PSA from Tessa Films

By Reel Chicago Sep 23, 2025
Smartphone Free Childhood US (SFCxUS), a growing grassroots movement of parent advocates, has released a new PSA that targets the pressures smartphones and social media place o...
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Chicago takes center stage: A Grammy salute to Earth, Wind & Fire
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Chicago takes center stage: A Grammy salute to Earth, Wind & Fire

By Reel Chicago Sep 22, 2025
On the most famous date in pop music, Chicago’s greatest groove finally got its flowers. A GRAMMY Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live: The 21st Night of September aired las...
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