Last week definitely was not a good week for Chicago advertising, with major accounts moving to New York agencies and leaving the Chicago ad market bereft of $420 million in bil...
Registration is now open for one of the best weekends of the summer for filmmakers at all levels of skill — the 13th annual 48 Hour Film Project Chicago, Aug. 14-16....
WRITER/DIRECTOR LUCIA MAURO’S “In My Brother’s Shoes,” won “Best Short Film” in the prestigious ‘il Pesce d’ Argento’ (the Silver Fish) award from the Mir...
The expansion of Michael Nehs and Jonathan Bross’ full-service Periscope Post and Audio over a full floor at Cinespace that began in May is expected to be finished in t...
Claire Simon Casting will be making the first major change to its business since Claire Simon opened its doors 19 years ago, by moving into what she claims will be “the Taj ...
Yesterday morning, two strange men whom no one knew or had seen before, but exuding a distinctive laid-back California air, turned up unexpectedly at Cineverse Camera’s offi...
Havas Worldwide’s senior art director Scott Rench will be riding his #BikeDesk around town during Chicago Bike to Work Week, to inspire downtown professionals to ride their ...
Come Oct. 1, 2016 Michigan’s film incentives that generated revenues of $1.3 billion against a cost of $450 million since 2008, when the incentives were instituted, will be ...
The winning combo of Leo Burnett and Another Country sound designer David Gerbosi, who has mixed every Allstate Insurance “Mayhem” spot since the agency introduced the con...
The Chicago Public Library Foundation knew RPM Advertising had the right stuff when it asked the agency to create a PSA to promote its annual fundraising program that keeps kids...
After six years in Chicago advertising, Leo Burnett US chief creative chief Susan Credle will head back to New York to assume one of the adworld’s most exclusive positions ...
New creative industry incubator 2112 and massive Fort Knox Studios, a recording and music rehearsal center, are hosting a panel discussion Wednesday, June 10 as their opening ...
My Sister Fred, the virtual agency led by a pair of former conventional agency creatives, went global in creating the opening video and all the elements for the London Business...
ACTOR JIM BELUSHI filed two lawsuits in relating to a failed deal with a local comedy owner. The first was a defamation suit seeking $50,000 in damages against Sahar Chavosh...
Some 2,000 members of the advertising and production industries attended last night’s AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, held at the Museum of Mode...
It’s not a “goodbye forever” on Sunday, June 14 for the twentieth Indie Incubator XX free film festival of locally-made short films held bi-monthly for the past decade at...
In the past few days since Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget cuts included suspending film industry’s hard earned tax credit, confusion has been rampant and the effect negative, ...
THE AICP NEXT AWARDS held last night in New York as part of AICP Week, presented its 2015 Most Next honor to Leo Burnett’s Allstate’s “Social Savvy Burglar.” As ...
A suspension of the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit was one of many items contained in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announced budget cuts, in an overt ploy to prod the Democrats to co...
Digital Kitchen has gone global with its acquisition by Kyu, the new strategic operating unit of Japanese Hakuhodo DY Holdings, the seventh largest advertising holding company...