Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Out of AICP’s annual 2014 AICP Show and AICP Next Awards Shortlist of 212 nominees for excellence and expertise in commercials, only five Chicago agencies in eight categorie...

New Pink Hippo Productions  is possibly the first company formed in Chicago by film school grads, who say they are serious about living and working here and growing their...

Cossette of Quebec City, Canada is the new agency for McDonald’s Owner/Operators of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (MOCNI), replacing Leo Burnett after three decades of ...

Cutters is doing Chicago proud in the 2014 AICE Awards by having scored seven nominations, out of 90 US/Canadian nominees in 30 categories.  Cutters and Beast, with two f...

ENERGY BBDO CREATIVE RICK HAMANN left the agency, where he’d been SVP/group CD since mid-2011, to join Onion Labs, as SVP and head of the satirical publication’s in-house ag...

Funeral services will be held Tuesday for long-time esteemed Local 476 member, Fernando M. Briones, 54, whose sudden death last week from a heart attack “shocked and saddened ...

One of the high points of the Chicago International Film Festival has always been the incredible parade of great Hollywood actors it has honored during the summer gala. This y...

CIMMfest has grown 30% this year, its sixth, over last year and no one should be surprised to learn that it aims to become the northern SWSW.  And well it could, consider...

WYCC/20’s two hour special about Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy premiering Friday, April 18 highlights the PBS station’s launch of a major music series that continues the st...

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THE COLONIE won’t be exhibiting the work of new artists on its walls, as it usually does for its parties.  The big attraction at its Thursday, April 24 event will be...

AFTER A YEAR IN CHICAGO, The Mill is celebrating what its CEO, Robin Shenfield, calls “an incredibly warm welcome by strengthening the team and recognizing the fantastic role ...

Reid Brody’s 2DS Productions -- Chicago’s fastest-growing indie film company -- is sending invitations to the community for the premiere of its third film, the offbeat comed...

Last Friday, studio owner/executive creative director Erin Sarofsky of eponymous Sarofsky held a party to celebrate the theatrical release of Disney/Marvel’s “Captain Amer...

RUMORS FLYING all over about the alleged closing here of visual effects Method Studios,  a division of LA-based Deluxe Entertainment Group, are categorically denied by Me...

After more than 50 years of simply being called “the broadcast facility,” WTTW’s three-storey building at 5400 N. St. Louis on the Northeastern University campus, will h...

Commonground tapped Chuck Bein’s See Music to produce the soundtrack for the agency’s glacially cold introduction of Coors Light Special Edition aluminum pint bottle, in a...