Creative editorial house Utopic — which celebrated its sixth business anniversary in December — expanded its editorial talent with the promotion of Jill DiBiase to...
THE CHICAGO AD FEDERATION, one of 13 associations under the management umbrella of Kellen, a global management and communications company, recently moved into the 32,000 s...
Ambitious Chicagoans have migrated to the Hollywood film industry ever since Charlie Chaplin moved to sunny California a century ago. And they’re still coming, undaunted...
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...
For this holiday I am begging people to use technology wisely. Leave your devices alone. No one needs to get an update from inside the theatre while you are watching “Th...
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...
Here’s a good start to the New Year of media and entertainment in Chicago. Dick Wolf’s latest franchise, “Chicago Med,” will have an 18 episode first season, havin...
When AbelsonTaylor president Dale Taylor started treating his employees to casual in-house lunchtime gatherings on Friday afternoons 25 years ago, he did not realize that the tr...
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,...
When most people think about holiday songs, the usual suspects come to mind — “White Christmas,” “Silver Bells” and “Let it Snow.” Grammy and Emmy-winning composer...
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC’S LOSS is Rethink Studios’ gain. The CGI and motion graphic design studio hired Renita Taylor as producer when she recently moved to C...
Tom Fletcher, HD visionary and local film industry icon, has released the 2015 Fletcher Camera Comparison Chart, an annual reminder of the continuing evolution of the cameras an...
Post house Hootenanny, quite aware of the burgeoning Latino visual media market (Latinos are now 17% of the US population) is representing Buenos Aires-based editor, Roberto Bra...
Chicago earns its close-up at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, with premieres of the feature “Southside with You,” about Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date and Media P...
THE NORTH ALLIANCE, the first ever collective of Scandinavian creative agencies, has expanded into the U.S. market with the acquisition of the Chicago-based digital agency, Nans...