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National Guard turns high school gyms into virtual crisis zones
  • CREATIVE

National Guard turns high school gyms into virtual crisis zones

By Reel Chicago Nov 17, 2025
With recruiting tougher than ever and most teens unaware that the Army National Guard is the frontline force in disaster response, Team DDB and TMA decided to stop explaini...
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IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity
  • UNION

IATSE 476 Film Workers’ Holiday Market returns to CineCity

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
Chicago’s film community is kicking off the holiday season with the return of the 3rd Annual Film Workers’ Holiday Market, hosted by the IATSE Local 476 Women’s Committee...
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Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Here’s what’s filming in Chicago as 2025 wraps

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
As 2025 enters its final stretch, cameras continue to roll across Chicago. Network series, streamers, indie features, and commercial shoots will be keeping crews busy through t...
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Pope names his four favorite films – one was made in Chicago
  • CHICAGO MADE

Pope names his four favorite films – one was made in Chicago

By Barbara Roche Nov 15, 2025
The Pope has invited a special audience with global filmmakers and actors, the Chicago-born pontiff highlights cinema’s power to inspire empathy and reveals his four all-time...
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Froot Loops x Chicago Jeweler turn Hip-Hop lyrics into wearable art
  • SOCIAL MEDIA

Froot Loops x Chicago Jeweler turn Hip-Hop lyrics into wearable art

By Reel Chicago Nov 15, 2025
Froot Loops is stepping deeper into the culture this season, teaming up with Chicago designer Kristopher Kites to transform decades of hip-hop shoutouts into collectible, hand-...
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FCB Chicago wins three Clio Entertainment Grand Awards
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FCB Chicago wins three Clio Entertainment Grand Awards

By Reel Chicago Nov 15, 2025
A huge congratulations goes out to FCB Chicago and Rakish Entertainment, whose groundbreaking accessibility initiative “Caption with Intention” swept the 2025 Clio Entertai...
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Highdive x Cutters score big in NHL’s latest creative
  • Reel Ad of the Week

Highdive x Cutters score big in NHL’s latest creative

By Reel Chicago Nov 15, 2025
Director Ritesh Gupta, repped in the U.S. by Merman Branded, is back behind the camera for the NHL’s latest round of its celebrated “The Next Golden Era is Now” campaign ...
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IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center
  • UNION

IATSE Local 2 celebrates opening of new training center

By Barbara Roche Nov 14, 2025
Governor J.B. Pritzker joined leadership from IATSE Local 2 and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on Thursday to cut the ribbon on the union’s new ...
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Did Operation Midway Blitz make Chicago safer?
  • CITY NEWS

Did Operation Midway Blitz make Chicago safer?

By Barbara Roche Nov 14, 2025
As violent crime continues to drop across Chicago, the federal immigration enforcement surge launched earlier this year, known as Operation Midway Blitz, is drawing new questio...
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Chicago Fire seeks specialty extras for November 18 photo shoot
  • CASTING

Chicago Fire seeks specialty extras for November 18 photo shoot

By Reel Chicago Nov 13, 2025
As Chicago Fire continues filming Season 14 throughout the city, the show’s extras casting team is preparing for an upcoming episode, with a casting call looking for real sib...
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Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey
  • ONE CHICAGO

Flatliners, Chicago Med, The Bear: Oliver Platt ’s Chicago journey

By Barbara Roche Nov 12, 2025
Across more than three decades, Oliver Platt has quietly assembled one of the most significant resumés in Chicago film and television. Before Oliver Platt became the steady...
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Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Chicago Studio City: over 45 years of shaping Chicago production

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
For more than four decades, Chicago Studio City (CSC) has stood as one of the most enduring and influential production hubs in the Midwest. The family-run operation has helped ...
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Mr. Submarine marks 50 years with 50 wild spots
  • Reel Ad of the Week

Mr. Submarine marks 50 years with 50 wild spots

By Reel Chicago Nov 7, 2025
WTF? Quality Meats has done it this time. They have the Reel Chicago team laughing so hard we don't know what to do with ourselves. Mr. Submarine is celebrating its 50th annive...
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LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight
  • ONE CHICAGO

LaRoyce Hawkins guides Kevin Atwater into the spotlight

By Barbara Roche Nov 7, 2025
As Chicago P.D. enters Season 13, LaRoyce Hawkins continues to shape Kevin Atwater into one of the series’ most grounded, steadily evolving characters. What began as a suppor...
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New details emerge about the SB 1911 tax incentives
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

New details emerge about the SB 1911 tax incentives

By Reel Chicago Nov 6, 2025
In a significant win for the state’s film and television community, the Illinois General Assembly passed a sweeping expansion of the Illinois Film Production Services Tax Inc...
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Home Alone director set to helm Gremlins 3
  • FILM

Home Alone director set to helm Gremlins 3

By Reel Chicago Nov 6, 2025
Warner Bros. is officially bringing the Gremlins franchise back to the big screen, and this time, the mischievous Mogwai are in the hands of some very capable (and slightly cha...
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Quality Meats gets Manscaped
  • ACCOUNT WINS

Quality Meats gets Manscaped

By Reel Chicago Nov 6, 2025
Independent agency Quality Meats is headed back to the Big Game. After making its Super Bowl debut earlier this year with GoDaddy, a campaign that went on to win the Creative B...
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Chew 5 Gum turns TikTok fan reactions into animation
  • CREATIVE

Chew 5 Gum turns TikTok fan reactions into animation

By Reel Chicago Nov 5, 2025
Mars Wrigley and Energy BBDO are bringing a new kind of sensory overload to social media, and they’re letting TikTok fans lead the charge. The latest chapter in the brand...
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Macaulay Culkin reprises Kevin McCallister for Home Instead
  • HOLIDAY SPIRIT

Macaulay Culkin reprises Kevin McCallister for Home Instead

By Reel Chicago Nov 5, 2025
Just in time for the 35th anniversary of Home Alone, Home Instead and FCB Chicago have teamed up to bring audiences back to the McCallister household, with a touching twist the...
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Chicago History Museum screens WTTW’s Candy Capital
  • CHICAGO MADE

Chicago History Museum screens WTTW’s Candy Capital

By Reel Chicago Nov 5, 2025
Chicago has always had a taste for history, and this week, it’s serving up something delicious. The Chicago History Museum will host a special screening of Candy Capital, a W...
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