Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

With the Nov. 6 election right around the corner, ad/marketing specialists, Third Street Advertising, is doing its part to encourage young people to vote. A compelling non-parti...

Four members of AICP Midwest were newly elected to the 13-member board of directors in the annual election held Tuesday, Sept. 23.  They are Megan Maples, executive produce...

Inside what was Essanay Studios in Uptown, actors Charlie Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin and other icons starred in silent one-reelers that were churned out ...

For Oscar Oboza, being named Optimus’ senior colorist means more than having a new position.  It’ll be a homecoming for the Chicago native who has spent the last 13 yea...

Colorist Tyler Roth and his assistant, Paul Galati, are the first hires of Company 3, the new Chicago branch of the international color and finishing specialists. Roth joined Co...

When Teri Rogers, CEO of Kansas City-based T2 Studios, felt it was time to expand her fast-growing experiential division XL, she went against the traditional wisdom of opening i...

While many unlikely cities throughout the world have been used as substitutes for Chicago locations for movies and commercials (and not always convincingly) STORY’S recent rev...

For editor Dean Gonzalez, joining Hootenanny editorial is more of a homecoming than a new job.  Returning to Chicago after 15 years of high-profile editing in L.A., he reu...

The beer business has been in the headlines with the recent switch of MillerCoors’ Coors Light and Coors banquet brands departing Draftfcb for new Cavalry agency; DDB’s loss...

Red Car editorial’s new managing director Carrie Holecek has gone all out for a memorable first party in a series she calls “Red Car Ignition,” that will undoubtedly blow ...

“Scrooge & Marley,” a modern and gay version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” signed Tony and Emmy-winning actress Judith Light as the film’s narrator an...

WRITER/DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS, the South Side native best known for his Chicago-set and made action features, will receive Chicago Screenwriters Network’s inaugural Founders Aw...