Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Young & Rubicam starts the New Year with departures and promotions. New co-executive creative directors and a new global talent director were announced to succeed two execut...

Installment two of “The School Project: Chicago Public Schools Close,” a series that examines public education after the fallout from the city’s 2013 historic closing of...

Chicago Screenwriters Network (CSN) is starting its 20th anniversary year with a new, reinvigorated board, meetings at a new permanent venue and expansive program plans includi...

WHITEHOUSE POST’S Kristin Branstetter has returned to Chicago as executive producer, as of Dec. 15, replacing Dan Bryant who left earlier this year after being with the post h...

If Chicago’s visual media industry is ending 2014 with a big smile of satisfaction from a profitable outpouring of work, then 2015 will have everyone positively beaming like...

For the past three years, Cinespace Studios has hosted a Holiday Party, with Santa Claus in attendance, games, gifts and good things to eat, for the children in the Lawndale ne...

The advertising community gave generously to the Off the Street Club Holiday Luncheon, as demonstrated by their record-breaking contributions of over $570,000 raised exclusively...

When she held the office of State Treasurer, Judy Baar Topinka, who died Tuesday of a stroke, was the Illinois film industry’s great financial friend.  In looking for ...

Chicago Recording Company, together with Filmworkers, Vitamin and Giannini Creative, expect their 2014 Holiday Party Thursday night to be the biggest ever, with 1,200 to 1,500 ...

DICTIONARY FILMS’DIRECTORS’ ROSTER expanded with duo Eric McCoy and Justus Meyer, aka McCoy|Meyer, raising the number of directors to eight.  The Columbia College gra...

INDIE FEATURE “ANIMALS” was the big Best of the Midwest Awards Tuesday night, hosted by Midwest International Film Festival, winning for Best Feature, Best Director, Colli...

Picture Show Films’ “Real Guys, Real Grooming” campaign for Wahl internationally-sold line of men’s facial trimmers and clippers rolls into its second month of airing ...

Following on the wheels of the Cadillac commercial that filmed here for the Chinese market a few weeks ago, was a Chinese crew over the Thanksgiving weekend that shot opening...

Media goddess Laurie Scheer is back in Chicago to share her successful approach of improving storytelling, skills for selling a screenplay and developing content in today...

THE PERFECT MATCH: Chicago Recording Company and sales rep Dave Dakich have teamed up to make beautiful music together, figuratively speaking.  Dakich is CRC’s newly h...

The lawsuit filed on behalf of Teamster 727 member Anne Stuart, a commercial driver, charging the union with sex discrimination, is back in the game after a judge tossed ...

Three Chinese admen from McCann Erickson Shanghai were in Chicago last week supervising Accomplice Media’s two-day shoot for Cadillac's 2015 XTS luxury sedan. But why would t...

Vitamin Pictures creative director Danny Delpurgatorio has wrapped his second horror short, “a psychological horror thriller dealing with mental illness,” he says, that w...

Tonight’s 26th annual AICP Show will be bursting with creative energy as more than 1,000 guests (as of 9 a.m.) from Michigan Avenue, Los Angeles and across the country will ...