Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Award-winning Cutters commercial editor / partner Kathryn Hempel, who edited the internationally acclaimed video, “Like a Girl” for P&G’s Always/Leo Burnett, is one of...

Executive producer Carey Lundin is rebooting her wildly popular 2008 social media hit, “Citizen Kate,” for a second term on the 2016 campaign trail, to air from the February...

After only 18 months in business, the Gill Hayes Talent Agency is expanding to Atlanta, with the move of Patti K. Gill, partner with Michelle Hayes, in early spring.Located...

Big Deahl Productions, working with Resolution Production Group, has perfected a new green screen-like technique for commercials that will save advertisers time and money.The pr...

On Jan. 8 the Music Box Theatre becomes the exclusive Chicago venue for Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" Civil War epic that was shot, released and projected in 70mm, as ...

Women in Film Chicago’s Jan. 14 Open House starts a new season of events, whose “goal will be to give women some of the tools they’ll need to succeed in this very com...

The AICE Awards will celebrates their 15th anniversary in Chicago next spring, with the presentation taking place at Navy Pier, May 12, and the call for entries has go...

There are all sorts of way to give back to the community and MARC USA has rallied marketing leaders to join their mission to help startups succeed by providing them with ex...

"There are two very different Chicagos that children can grow up in today. There is the world-class, opportunity-filled Chicago that many of us have been fortunate to give to ou...

FCB CHICAGO continues to increase its creative assets with the VP/creative director team of copywriter Kathleen Waille and art director Marisa Groenweghe rejoining the agency fr...

AL Media, Eric Adelstein and Ann Liston’s a political advertising consultancy and production company, has launched its first broadcast campaign of the upcoming election season...

Still pondering a Christmas gift that’s fun, different and, umm, not too pricey?  On Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., visit Daily Planet’s one day, pop-up shop at the ...

Award-winning director Ky Dickens has been filming a feature documentary about the need for paid family leave since her daughter, Harlow, was born in June, 2014, and she and her...

With its new space in an historic Sears building in North Lawndale, Free Spirit Media now has five locations to help urban youth from under-resourced communities gain life,...

Commonground/MGS has ceased operating because of “circumstances beyond the agency’s control, namely the adversarial relationship between the holding company and its lender,�...

Last Saturday, Gordon Quinn, co-founder and artistic director of Kartemquin Films, received a standing ovation from his peers when he accepted the Career Achievement Award from ...