Nicholas Paul heads the Chicago office of FCB's new 361 Degrees Sports & Event Marketing division. A staff of ultimately 12 will work on sports and sponsorship marketing, eve...

Nicolas Cage will receive the career achievement award at the 39th Chicago International Film Festival. Last year Clint Eastwood, accompanied by his extended family (present ...

METROPOLITAN CHICAGO STUDIOS, the 22,000 sq. ft. of stage space and offices at 2500 W. Roosevelt Road, has officially closed. With industrial growth burgeoning to the west, o...

Andy Madorsky is Grant/Jacoby's new executive creative director. He replaces Bernie Pizel who left the agency after a decade to open his own ad shop, Romani Bros. Advertising...

Ebel, Signorelli & Welke/Chicago is the result of the June 1 merger of two medium-small agencies, Ebel Dunnell Merrick and Creative Alliance/Chicago, that's created a new $100...

A small group of novice playwrights got together in 1979 to form a collective at the old Organic Theatre. They had little money, but great determination to write, act and pro...

The City of Chicago shut down construction on the house where the network reality series "Starting Over" was set to shoot. Reality clashed with television "reality" thi...

It's an idea whose time has come. A full-fledged, super-sized, international spotlight on animated films. And it's being launched in late fall by a producing pair who brough...

by Joan Tortorici Ruppert In the digital age, face-to-face networking has become even more important as we relegate much of our communication to silence and text. B...

First "Chicago" was filmed in Toronto. Then the cable story of dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker and mayor Rudy Giuliani. And now ? from the people who should know much, much bett...

Seed, a new L.A.-based commercial company, is the joint venture of Backyard partners Roy Skillicorn and Blair Stribley and Science+ Fiction founders Steve Mendelson and Kevin...