State auditor questions Lottery agency selection
IT AIN’T OVER ‘til it’s over. Close followers of our extensive reporting last summer and fall on the protracted process to select the first ever private manager for the Illinois
IT AIN’T OVER ‘til it’s over. Close followers of our extensive reporting last summer and fall on the protracted process to select the first ever private manager for the Illinois
CALL IT AN EARLY BIRTHDAY SHOUT-OUT. In September, ad agency Element 79/Chicago will celebrate its 10th year in business. We wanted to know from Element 79 leader Brian Williams what
THE DAY OF RECKONING DRAWS NEAR. We refer, of course, to the decision regarding the fate of S.C. Johnson’s billion-dollar advertising account. Final pitches are done, and discussions, sources say,
We’re back. Just like that. Ruth Ratny, a longtime chronicler of the Chicago advertising, post production and film industries, has asked us to write a column for ReelChicago.com.
So
Y&R has lost the Sears account, a mainstay of the agency for the past 18 years, but thankfully the big billing account will remain in Chicago, unlike all too many
LEO BURNETT WORLDWIDE was not only the “Agency of the Year” at the International Advertising Awards in New York earlier this month, but it won a record 35 awards, including
PRODUCERS OF “THE BOSS” correctly chose Chicago over Pittsburgh for the location of the 8-episode series starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago mayor who faces the news he’s developed a
WHAT A WEEK this is turning out to be ? crammed with activities, information, good food, fun ? a fitting climax to what’s turned out to be a
WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what’s got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, stars
Young, aspiring agency creatives get a golden opportunity to show their stuff to a Who’s Who of Chicago advertising creative executives and recruiters at Portfolio Night 8 (PN8) May 8,
The 30th DGA Best Commercial Director Awards for 2009 has named five internationally acclaimed directors — with MJZ’s earning its seventh multiple nominations in eight years.
The
At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural
BRUCE MONTGOMERY, a co-founder of the two-year old, ever-growing Chicago Convergence, has stepped up as president. He is CEO of Wi-Fi Technologies and executive producer and host of
“PUBLIC ENEMIES,” with a reported $100 million-budget that provided a bank vault of welcome revenue for Illinois and Wisconsin (although unappreciated by Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle
Burrell Communications bested three other minority agencies to win an initial two-year, $6.4 million Illinois Lottery contract to provide advertising and PR targeted to African Americans. The contract provides
The best of Chicago’s advertising is apparently created by a handful of major ad agencies, if the number of prizes they won at the recent Creative Club Awards is any
A RARE AND PERFECT CHOICE are Chicago natives Virgina Madsen and her brother, Michael Madsen to MC the SAG Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Gala
DIRECTOR ROBERT TOWNSEND will be among the esteemed group of industry professionals celebrating IFP’s first Independent Film Gala, Sept. 28 at Salvage One. All
CHRIS GARDNER, whose determination to succeed was amazingly chronicled in the movie “Pursuit to Happyness,” appears in a Wal-Mart spot celebrating Black History Month.
In a significant development, Burrell Communications Group, a renowned Black-owned advertising agency, has been acquired by Evolve Holdings, a consortium led by Channing Johnson, an attorney at Loeb & Loeb