It's difficult to think of "Citizen Kane's" creator Orson Welles, a giant of 20th century culture, as being a Midwesterner, although the cinema genius was born in Kenosha and ed...
Two buddies were at the Green Eye Lounge on Milwaukee Avenue, kicking around ideas about film and music, when the conversation turned serious. Chicago offers hundreds of places...
As the country’s leading casino advertising agency, it was not all that unusual for RPM Advertising to have a slot machine in its office. The 20-year vintage “Groovy...
Ten of Hollywood’s best known, busiest and emerging screenwriters, whose credits appear shows like “Scandal,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Pirates of the C...
Out of AICP’s annual 2014 AICP Show and AICP Next Awards Shortlist of 212 nominees for excellence and expertise in commercials, only five Chicago agencies in eight categorie...
New Pink Hippo Productions is possibly the first company formed in Chicago by film school grads, who say they are serious about living and working here and growing their...
For the first time, CIMMfest is appealing to the advertising industry by featuring a panel directed weekend’s CIMMfest. Its May 3 CIMMCon panel features “How to Tell S...
Cossette of Quebec City, Canada is the new agency for McDonald’s Owner/Operators of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (MOCNI), replacing Leo Burnett after three decades of ...
Cutters is doing Chicago proud in the 2014 AICE Awards by having scored seven nominations, out of 90 US/Canadian nominees in 30 categories. Cutters and Beast, with two f...
ENERGY BBDO CREATIVE RICK HAMANN left the agency, where he’d been SVP/group CD since mid-2011, to join Onion Labs, as SVP and head of the satirical publication’s in-house ag...
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for long-time esteemed Local 476 member, Fernando M. Briones, 54, whose sudden death last week from a heart attack “shocked and saddened ...
Grace and Wild’s former production facilities in Farmington Hills is being resurrected after two years of inactivity, through its acquisition by Sterling Group/Detroit.Sterlin...
One of the high points of the Chicago International Film Festival has always been the incredible parade of great Hollywood actors it has honored during the summer gala. This y...
FCB was the agency choice of Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism arm, to promote the city as a tourist destination throughout the world. Starcom USA will handle media planning....
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CIMMfest has grown 30% this year, its sixth, over last year and no one should be surprised to learn that it aims to become the northern SWSW. And well it could, consider...
LOCAL BANDS LED ZEPPELIN 2 and A Friend Called Fire will keep the Lawyers for the Creative Arts’ Spring Shindy rocking April 26. The music showcase, fundraiser and mix...
An encore, please, for the first annual Chicago Independent Music Awards (CIMA), held Sunday night at the Field Museum’s James Simpson Theatre. Captivating a packed audience, ...
Diners at the
River North eatery
can enter a virtual arena
with Richard Dent,
Frank Thomas,
Patrick Kane, and
Darren Haydar
Thanks to interactive marketing agency NEXT...