George Lazarus

Descriptions of Chicago as a second city have grown pretty lame, notably in the ad biz. Michigan Avenue is still battling Madison Avenue for national recognition, though there are many...

Paralegal-trained Jacqueline L. Moynihan is trying to carve a new business niche in a building that until last year produced stone sculptures and department store props. The three-story building at...

Perhaps 5 percent of the estimated 450 spirits labels in this country sell a million cases a year. So what makes inimitable spirits veteran Michel Roux think he can sell...

Legendary jeweler C.D. Peacock returns to Michigan Avenue this fall, and this time around, it will have both sides of the Chicago River covered. Signing leases for locations in the...

So, you blew the budget, spending twice as much as you figured. Do you sing the bottom-line blues? Or do you rationalize the expenditure because you wanted to do a...

In a softer economy, a shutdown of a medium-size ad agency or a similar small business might find displaced employees scurrying. But in the currently robust job market, the 50...

Kellogg Co. hasn't given up on mega-model Cindy Crawford, but the Special K brand she has been touting has a new ad agency home as the embattled cereal giant, in...

Bragging rights for award-winning creative can be fleeting, lasting only until the next major awards competition. By then, a fickle client just might have given the agency the boot, because...

Cramer-Krasselt chief Peter Krivkovich got his start in advertising as a $9,500-a-year copywriter for Kemper Insurance Cos. in the early 1970s. Now Krivkovich and his agency have stepped forward and...

To its credit, the Chicago advertising-publishing community can turn out the troops--executives from agencies and clients--for an event here Tuesday night honoring the best in magazine ads. However, admakers here...