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The Chi returns for its final season with a dark premiere
  • CHICAGO MADE

The Chi returns for its final season with a dark premiere

By Reel Chicago May 22, 2026
The Chi is back for its eighth and final season, and if the premiere is any indication, creator Lena Waithe is taking the acclaimed Chicago drama into its bleakest and most vol...
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Miller Lite is awarding MVP fans a one-of-a-kind matchball
  • SPORTS

Miller Lite is awarding MVP fans a one-of-a-kind matchball

By Reel Chicago May 22, 2026
Miller Lite is going all in on summer. As soccer fever ramps up across the U.S. and America’s 250th birthday celebrations begin rolling into peak season, the Molson Coors bra...
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AICP Midwest sets date for Meet.Drink.Talk
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AICP Midwest sets date for Meet.Drink.Talk

By Reel Chicago May 22, 2026
Chicago’s advertising and production community will gather once again later this month as AICP Midwest brings back its long-running Meet.Drink.Talk networking event on Thursd...
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One Chicago dominates ratings again – well, almost
  • ONE CHICAGO

One Chicago dominates ratings again – well, almost

By Reel Chicago May 22, 2026
NBC’s Chicago Fire and Chicago Med continue proving the staying power of Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise, both landing inside the Top 10 most-watched non-sports programs of t...
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Emplify Health amplifies empathy in animated campaign
  • Reel Ad of the Week

Emplify Health amplifies empathy in animated campaign

By Reel Chicago May 21, 2026
Healthcare advertising tends to look and sound exactly the same. Warm piano music. Slow-motion walking shots. Somebody staring thoughtfully out of a hospital window. Cramer-Kra...
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Last Call, Chicago – Schlitz is going dark after 177 years
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Last Call, Chicago – Schlitz is going dark after 177 years

By Reel Chicago May 20, 2026
For generations of Chicago bar-goers, a cold Schlitz wasn’t just a beer order. It was part of the atmosphere. The glowing Schlitz signs hanging in old tavern windows. The fad...
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NFL Owners briefed on Bears’ stadium plans
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NFL Owners briefed on Bears’ stadium plans

By Jason La Canfora May 19, 2026
As the NFL’s owners meet in Florida this week to discuss primarily matters related to the business of their sport, the Bears will brief them on their efforts to build a new...
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AICP Midwest x IPA spotlight new tax credit opportunities
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AICP Midwest x IPA spotlight new tax credit opportunities

By Reel Chicago May 19, 2026
Chicago’s production community is getting a major financial pitch later this month and the numbers are hard to ignore. AICP Midwest and the Illinois Production Alliance (IPA)...
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Parkview Health wants to break healthcare advertising’s sameness problem
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Parkview Health wants to break healthcare advertising’s sameness problem

By Reel Chicago May 19, 2026
Healthcare advertising has a formula problem. Soft piano music. Slow-motion hugs. Generic promises about compassion. Smiling doctors walking through sunlit hallways like they...
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Bob Odenkirk recalls near-fatal heart attack
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Bob Odenkirk recalls near-fatal heart attack

By BANG Showbiz May 17, 2026
Berwyn's Bob Odenkirk is opening up in chilling detail about the terrifying moments surrounding the near-fatal heart attack he suffered while filming Better Call Saul in 2021. ...
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As Cannes slows, Chicago’s Watermelon Pictures is building a different future for indie film
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As Cannes slows, Chicago’s Watermelon Pictures is building a different future for indie film

By Reel Chicago May 17, 2026
Inside the halls of the Cannes Film Festival this year, there’s one uncomfortable reality almost everyone seems to agree on: Business is slow. According to THR, the gia...
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Chicago has big night at 2026 Clio Awards
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Chicago has big night at 2026 Clio Awards

By Reel Chicago May 15, 2026
BBDO Chicago helped put Chicago squarely in the global creative spotlight Thursday night at the 2026 Clio Awards, taking home two Grand Clios for its emotionally powerful “Th...
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Contender’s Robert Clifton Jr. named CAF’s Creative of the Year
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Contender’s Robert Clifton Jr. named CAF’s Creative of the Year

By Reel Chicago May 15, 2026
Contender co-founder and chief creative officer Robert Clifton Jr. has been named the inaugural recipient of the Chicago Advertising Federation’s (CAF) newly created Creative...
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McDonald’s wins naming rights to Chicago Fire FC’s new stadium
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McDonald’s wins naming rights to Chicago Fire FC’s new stadium

By Reel Chicago May 15, 2026
In other Chicago Fire FC news, the football club has landed one of the biggest branding partnerships in its history. McDonald's and Chicago Fire FC officially announced a landm...
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Apple TV+ reveals first look, premiere date for Dark Matter S2
  • CHICAGO MADE

Apple TV+ reveals first look, premiere date for Dark Matter S2

By Reel Chicago May 15, 2026
Apple TV+ has officially unveiled a first look at Season 2 of Dark Matter, the mind-bending Chicago-set sci-fi thriller based on the bestselling novel by Blake Crouch. The a...
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Jeep, Marvel team with Highdive for Captain America-themeed America250
  • CREATIVE

Jeep, Marvel team with Highdive for Captain America-themeed America250

By Reel Chicago May 14, 2026
Jeep is teaming up with Marvel and Highdive for a massive new America250 campaign built around two American icons born in 1941: the Jeep Wrangler and Captain America. Create...
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Stanley brings back the Steemer to gross us out – and it works
  • Reel Ad of the Week

Stanley brings back the Steemer to gross us out – and it works

By Reel Chicago May 14, 2026
There’s something beautifully uncomfortable about Havas Chicago’s latest work for Stanley Steemer. This week’s Reel Ad of the Week goes to the return of “The Steemer,...
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One Chicago locks in core cast, franchise stars for another season
  • ONE CHICAGO

One Chicago locks in core cast, franchise stars for another season

By Reel Chicago May 14, 2026
NBC is officially keeping the heart of One Chicago intact. According to a new report from Deadline, franchise veterans S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Platt from Chicago Med, al...
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ALDI saddles up for latest ‘It’s an ALDI Thing’
  • CREATIVE

ALDI saddles up for latest ‘It’s an ALDI Thing’

By Reel Chicago May 12, 2026
Leo Chicago and ALDI are heading out West for the latest chapter of the retailer’s ongoing “It’s an ALDI Thing” platform, using cowboy wisdom and deadpan humor to celeb...
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Legendary director Joe Sedelmaier remembered by son J.J.
  • In memoriam

Legendary director Joe Sedelmaier remembered by son J.J.

By Reel Chicago May 12, 2026
Joe Sedelmaier, the groundbreaking commercial director whose distinctly human, eccentric style helped redefine modern advertising, died peacefully Friday morning of natural cau...
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