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Minorities' buying power on rise
Tribune Staff WriterThe buying power of minorities is growing at a faster rate than that of white Americans. The increase is due to a surge in population, rising levels of education and heightened entrepreneurial activity, a study released Thursday by the University of...Tags: Companies and Corporations, African Americans, National or Ethnic Minorities, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Business
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McDonald's plans a Ronald revival
The Wall Street JournalWhen it comes to Ronald McDonald, McDonald's doesn't clown around. It won't even admit that there is more than one Ronald. For four months now, McDonald's Corp. executives have been meeting at headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., trying to decide just how to...Tags: Children, Companies and Corporations, Bozo the Clown (fictional character), Oak Brook, Television
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Naperville Central honors notable alumni
When Dave Linne graduated from Naperville Central High School he couldn't wait to leave the western suburbs. But years later looking back at his career writing ads for McDonald's, Kraft, Disney, Pepsi, Nintendo, Hallmark and more, he realized the impact...Tags: Naperville Central High School, Students, Music, Nintendo Company Ltd., U.S. Army
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Elizabeth Redmond, 1918-2013
Elizabeth Redmond, a longtime librarian and researcher at Leo Burnett, could always be counted on to come up with information when it was needed. John Kinsella, a former CEO of the Chicago advertising agency, recalled talking to a client who was at a...Tags: Christianity, Google Inc., Leo Burnett Worldwide, Near North Side, Anglicanism
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CIFF TV Awards tip hat to top creatives
Luminaries from Chicago's television, advertising and filmmaking communities filled the ballroom at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel for the 49th Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards gala April 23. More than 300 people were on hand as...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Modern Family (tv program), Ceremonies, Television, Culture
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Harold Washington Library Center, Willis Tower, Fine Artists, Kanye West, Artists
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Downtown apartment units add up, as do rents
They're back: Construction cranes. In downtown Chicago. Lots of them, a visible sign of the more than 2,600 luxury rental units that will be added to the apartment market this year. About every downtown neighborhood has a project in the works or in...
Tags: Condos, Apartments, Streeterville, Chicago Mortgages, House Building
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Jellyvision Lab CEO has shaped a culture of fun and hard work
Tribune staff reporterSept. 21 is an important date at Jellyvision Lab. For starters, it's Chief Executive Amanda Lannert's birthday. It also happens to be Mustache Day, an annual tradition at the Chicago-based technology company. Employees who are able to grow facial hair...Tags: Unemployment, Companies and Corporations, Literature, Microsoft Corporation, New Products
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Publicis Groupe SA, Literature, The Wall Street Journal, Online Media Industry
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The 'Check, Please!' effect
Popular WTTW-Ch. 11 restaurant show "Check, Please!" is among the most successful locally produced series in Chicago television and an oasis of public television reasonableness in an otherwise frenetic restaurant scene. The series begins its 12th season...Tags: Lettuce, Check, Please (tv program), Realty, Everest, Television
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Remarkable Woman: Liz Cicchelli
A few years after stepping away from her professional life to focus on raising her two daughters, Liz Cicchelli itched to sink her teeth into something beyond volunteering at her kids' school. She found something way beyond. Invited by a friend to the...
Tags: Dave Eggers, Civil Rights, Afghanistan, Auction Service, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Chanel No. 5's heavy notes of Brad Pitt tickling the wrong senses at the moment
If you close your eyes, the ad for Chanel No. 5 from 30 or so years ago was larded with the very same kind of gibberish found in today's much-ridiculed spots with Brad Pitt. "I am made of blue sky. And golden light. And I will feel this way forever," a...
Tags: Britney Spears, Stanford University, The Pennsylvania State University, Rihanna, Ridley Scott
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