
A place for “Dinner Party” set at Taste of Chicago
A SPECIAL CELEBRITY FLAVOR has been added to Taste of Chicago festivities Thursday, July 10. By special invitation from

A SPECIAL CELEBRITY FLAVOR has been added to Taste of Chicago festivities Thursday, July 10. By special invitation from

The Chicago Portfolio School and Razorfish joined forces last week to establish the Windy City as one of 24 locales around the

SMASHING PUMPKINS’FRONTMAN Billy Corgan will become the star of a reality

The marriage of two agencies that analysts doubted would work was called off before the wedding. Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group terminated

Out of AICP’s annual 2014 AICP Show and AICP Next Awards Shortlist of 212 nominees for excellence and expertise in

THE COLONIE won’t be exhibiting the work of new artists on its walls, as it usually does for its parties. The big attraction at

R/GA RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital

HAVAS WORLDWIDE CHICAGO not only hired veteran agency producer Matt Faris the first of the year for the newly-created position of broadcast and digital production – but 27 other new

“CHICAGO FIRE” EXECS – show co-creator/EP Michael Brandt and EP/director Joe Chappelle – will present the top awards to the winners of the Best of Midwest Awards Tuesday, Dec. 4

Leviathan executive producer Jason White departed Thursday, Nov. 1 for Melbourne, Australia to attend the second international Pause Fest Digital Festival, Nov.
COMING AND GOING. Visual effects specialist Sam Gierasimczuk felt right at home when he returned to the Filmworkers building to join Vitamin as associate creative director.
THIRTY-YEAR STAGING VETERAN John Kavanagh has left the Show Department after 27 years to join national, full service production company, Lakeshore Audiovisual, Inc. (LSAV), as VP/business development.
LSAV, founded

Taste. Style. Both are lovely words. Though hardly ones we would — in the past — have commonly associated with the Illinois Lottery. After all, how many tacky, juvenile, schticky TV

When Teri Rogers, CEO of Kansas City-based T2 Studios, felt it was time to expand her fast-growing experiential division XL, she went against the traditional wisdom

WRITER/DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS, the South Side native best known for his Chicago-set and made action features, will receive Chicago Screenwriters Network’s inaugural Founders Award on Wednesday,

Call it fate. Or kismet if you like. But something just tells us it was meant to be. Maybe we weren’t the only observer — in Chicago anyway — who wasn’t
GOV. PAT QUINN had to bow out of heading the Chicago contingent at the important TV Production Executives Dinner in L.A. on Aug. 1 due to pressing government business in
NEW EDITOR is newly elevated Sean Halvorsen, who has been an assistant (mostly to editor Graham Metzger)since he joined the editorial house shortly after its founding in 2008.

Only a couple weeks ago we were talking about the slow but sure effort to establish a real and lasting sense of community within Chicago’s advertising industry. In large part
THE ILLINOIS FILM OFFICE hired seasoned location scout Raul Esparza as assistant managing director/location manager, replacing Todd Lizak who officially retired in January. He was asked to return to the