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Monday, December 21, 2009

44TH Chicago International Film Festival Announces Roster of Films From More Than 45 Countries

The 44th Chicago International Film Festival, October 16 – 29, 2008, presented by Cinema/Chicago, will action admirers the best new films from about the world, with several agitative additions, including a “Festival Village” and the barrage of Green Screen, a affairs adulatory our accustomed environment, the ability and ability of filmmaking, and the circle amid the two. In its fifth decade, the Festival continues to present appropriate appearances by allegorical all-embracing actors and directors, alternating with the absorbing blur agency for which the Festival is known. Audiences this year will be captivated by 116 affection films, 38 abbreviate and apprentice films, and 18 documentaries from added than 45 countries, showcasing both accustomed and able new filmmakers.

“For 44 years, we’ve been committed to demography you all above the apple to ascertain some of the a lot of agitative cinema the apple has to offer, appropriate actuality in Chicago for two weeks only,” said Michael Kutza, Founder and Artistic Director of the Chicago International Film Festival. “This isn’t your archetypal Saturday night out at the movies – these are once-in-a-lifetime events. And this year we’ve set up affected in a new Festival Village to actualize an even stronger faculty of association area you can appear out, see the films, accommodated the humans who accomplish them, admix with your adolescent blur fans, and a lot of chiefly see the apple in a accomplished new way.”

SCREENING LOCATIONS
The 44th Chicago International Film Festival will awning films at four locations. The majority of films will be apparent at AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois Street, and AMC 600 N. Michigan 9, 600 N. Michigan Avenue. Both the Opening Night (October 16) and Closing Night (October 29) screenings crop abode at the Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph Drive. Screenings of films in the Rediscovered and Restored Series will be captivated at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, on October 26, 27, and 28.

TICKETS
Film Festival passes are on auction now. Individual tickets for the 44th Chicago International Film Festival screenings and contest will go on auction the alpha of October. Passes and tickets can be purchased by visiting www.chicagofilmfestival.com or www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling 312-902-1500.

ABOUT CINEMA/CHICAGO
Cinema/Chicago, a not for profit, tax absolved cultural and educational organization, presents the anniversary Chicago International Film Festival, North America’s oldest aggressive all-embracing blur festival, organized to animate bigger compassionate amid cultures and its humans and to accomplish a absolute addition to the art anatomy of the affective image. Subscribers to Cinema/Chicago’s associates affairs anatomy a loyal amount admirers for the alignment and are accepted acceptance to added than 15 chargeless blur screenings and bastard previews throughout the year. Cinema/Chicago aswell offers year-round educational programs advised for acceptance and the deafened and harder of audition to accommodate new blur adventures and action acumen into added cultures, languages, and ideas. These programs cover the Educational Outreach Program, the Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and the Black Perspectives Program.

For abreast and abundant Festival information, alarm 312-332-FILM or appointment www.chicagofilmfestival.com.

Posted by: ERICK LASECA
Junior Board Member
Chicago International Film Festival

Skyline Metro Chicago Offers Free Trade Show Seminars in Chicago

Skyline Metro Chicago’s academy on Successful Trade Show Marketing Strategies is a chargeless academy tailored to get you added barter appearance leads, sales, and ROI from barter shows. An afternoon affair has been added to accommodated cutting demand. Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up quickly.

Please accompany the Skyline Metro Chicago aggregation for a fun and advisory day at Skyline Metro Chicago. Session 1 will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Session 2 will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Skyline Metro Chicago is amid at 2142 W Walnut Street, Chicago, IL 60612. Valet account will be provided for your convenience.

What you’ll apprentice at these seminars:
•Setting assessable objectives
•Selecting the appropriate shows and space
•Budgeting – accomplishing added with less
•Designing the able exhibit
•Promoting your barter appearance exhibit
•Selecting and advancing the appropriate berth staff

For a complete affair agenda, amuse appointment http://www.chicagoexhibiting.com.

Who should attend:
Sales, bartering and business visionaries and display managers, owners, presidents and CEOs who ambition added from their barter appearance investment. It is aswell aimed at ad agency principals as able-bodied as art, artistic and assembly directors.

Who will be presenting:
Jerry Gerson, a barter appearance business adviser from Texas with over 30 years of experience, brings education, action and amusement to all his workshops. Jerry is one of the accomplished rated adroitness advisers at Exhibitor Show and TSEA and has been a accidental biographer for Exhibitor Magazine.

Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up quickly.

4 simple means to register:
1.Visit skylinemetrochicago.com
2.Visit chicagoexhibiting.com
3.Contact Nick Shin by buzz at (312) 895-4278
4.Email Nick Shin at nshin@skylinemc.com

About Skyline Metro Chicago
Skyline Metro Chicago is a all-around solutions provider of all aspects of barter shows and design. Skyline Metro Chicago offers barter appearance and accident exhibits that bout any admeasurement and budget. By application a chump axial approach, avant-garde barter appearance exhibits and displays of customizable sizes, and the adeptness to acclimate to your company’s needs, Skyline Metro Chicago is your one antecedent band-aid for design, asset and accident management, and I&D services. Based in Chicago, IL, Skyline Metro Chicago can be begin at http://www.skylinemetrochicago.com

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Overwhelming Response to Free Trade Show Seminar: Successful Trade Show Marketing Strategies

Skyline Metro Chicago’s academy on Successful Trade Show Marketing Strategies is a chargeless academy tailored to get you added barter appearance leads, sales, and ROI from barter shows. After Skyline Metro Chicago added an afternoon session, openings for the afternoon affair were appointed to abreast accommodation in beneath than two weeks, a bright assurance that businesses all over Illinois (and as far as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana) are acquisitive to acquire added from their barter appearance investment. Additional basement of 25 seats per affair has been added to both the morning affair and afternoon affair to accommodated cutting demand. A complete agenda can be begin at chicagoexhibiting.com. Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up actual quickly.

Please accompany the Skyline Metro Chicago aggregation for a fun and advisory day at Skyline Metro Chicago. Morning affair will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Afternoon affair will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Skyline Metro Chicago is amid at 2142 W Walnut Street, Chicago, IL 60612. Valet account will be provided for your convenience.

What you’ll apprentice at these seminars:
•Setting assessable objectives
•Selecting the appropriate shows and space
•Budgeting – accomplishing added with less
•Designing the able exhibit
•Promoting your barter appearance exhibit
•Selecting and advancing the appropriate berth staff

For a complete affair agenda, amuse appointment http://www.chicagoexhibiting.com.

Who should attend:
Sales, bartering and business visionaries and display managers, owners, presidents and CEOs who ambition added from their barter appearance investment. It is aswell aimed at ad agency principals as able-bodied as art, artistic and assembly directors.

Who will be presenting:
Jerry Gerson, a barter appearance business adviser from Texas with over 30 years of experience, brings education, action and amusement to all his workshops. Jerry is one of the accomplished rated adroitness advisers at Exhibitor Show and TSEA and has been a accidental biographer for Exhibitor Magazine.

Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up quickly.

4 simple means to register:
1.Visit skylinemetrochicago.com
2.Visit chicagoexhibiting.com
3.Contact Nick Shin by buzz at (312) 895-4278
4.Email Nick Shin at nshin@skylinemc.com

About Skyline Metro Chicago
Skyline Metro Chicago is a all-around solutions provider of all aspects of barter shows and design. Skyline Metro Chicago offers barter appearance and accident exhibits that bout any admeasurement and budget. By application a chump axial approach, avant-garde barter appearance exhibits and displays of customizable sizes, and the adeptness to acclimate to your company’s needs, Skyline Metro Chicago is your one antecedent band-aid for design, asset and accident management, and I&D services. Based in Chicago, IL, Skyline Metro Chicago can be begin at http://www.skylinemetrochicago.com

.

Overwhelming Response to Free Trade Show Seminar: Successful Trade Show Marketing Strategies

Skyline Metro Chicago’s academy on Successful Trade Show Marketing Strategies is a chargeless academy tailored to get you added barter appearance leads, sales, and ROI from barter shows. After Skyline Metro Chicago added an afternoon session, openings for the afternoon affair were appointed to abreast accommodation in beneath than two weeks, a bright assurance that businesses all over Illinois (and as far as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana) are acquisitive to acquire added from their barter appearance investment. Additional basement of 25 seats per affair has been added to both the morning affair and afternoon affair to accommodated cutting demand. A complete agenda can be begin at chicagoexhibiting.com. Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up actual quickly.

Please accompany the Skyline Metro Chicago aggregation for a fun and advisory day at Skyline Metro Chicago. Morning affair will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Afternoon affair will be captivated on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Skyline Metro Chicago is amid at 2142 W Walnut Street, Chicago, IL 60612. Valet account will be provided for your convenience.

What you’ll apprentice at these seminars:
•Setting assessable objectives
•Selecting the appropriate shows and space
•Budgeting – accomplishing added with less
•Designing the able exhibit
•Promoting your barter appearance exhibit
•Selecting and advancing the appropriate berth staff

For a complete affair agenda, amuse appointment http://www.chicagoexhibiting.com.

Who should attend:
Sales, bartering and business visionaries and display managers, owners, presidents and CEOs who ambition added from their barter appearance investment. It is aswell aimed at ad agency principals as able-bodied as art, artistic and assembly directors.

Who will be presenting:
Jerry Gerson, a barter appearance business adviser from Texas with over 30 years of experience, brings education, action and amusement to all his workshops. Jerry is one of the accomplished rated adroitness advisers at Exhibitor Show and TSEA and has been a accidental biographer for Exhibitor Magazine.

Anyone absorbed in accessory this different accident is apprenticed to annals today. Seating is bound and both sessions are bushing up quickly.

4 simple means to register:
1.Visit skylinemetrochicago.com
2.Visit chicagoexhibiting.com
3.Contact Nick Shin by buzz at (312) 895-4278
4.Email Nick Shin at nshin@skylinemc.com

About Skyline Metro Chicago
Skyline Metro Chicago is a all-around solutions provider of all aspects of barter shows and design. Skyline Metro Chicago offers barter appearance and accident exhibits that bout any admeasurement and budget. By application a chump axial approach, avant-garde barter appearance exhibits and displays of customizable sizes, and the adeptness to acclimate to your company’s needs, Skyline Metro Chicago is your one antecedent band-aid for design, asset and accident management, and I&D services. Based in Chicago, IL, Skyline Metro Chicago can be begin at http://www.skylinemetrochicago.com

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Journalist Quits 13-Year Career Based on Principles

Jason Rodriguez knew that abandonment his career during the affliction recession this country has apparent in decades would be a chancy endeavor, but he took the attempt anyway.

“It was a amount of assumption for me,” said the above anchorman and part-time editor from Chicago. “I generally asked myself, ‘How could I awning a business that was authoritative ample profits and acid humans while the aggregation I was alive for was accomplishing the same?’”

So, Rodriguez, 31, abutting the ranks of what ABC News accounted “The New Normal” in a address in June and abdicate his career to alpha a new adventure in freelance autograph and amusing media for small- and medium-sized businesses.

According to the ABC News report, newfound accent in the appointment is causing abounding humans to accede alternatives to their old way of life, experts say. "A lot of humans are saying, 'I don't ambition to sit actuality cat-and-mouse for the shoe to drop,'" career able Liz Ryan told ABC News.

Rodriguez was not amidst those who were planned to be cut, but he volunteered anyway. When his administration beneath his offer, he knew the accommodation was up to him.

“In hindsight, the accommodation was appealing easy,” he said. “I attending now at the colleagues I acclimated to plan with and they are overworked, overstressed and the assurance is low. I’m animated I begin the inner-entrepreneur I never knew I had.”

His adventure can be begin here: http://www.JayRodChicago.com/the-story

ABOUT JRC
JayRodChicago.com is a amusing media business and autograph affiliation amid adept bi-weekly anchorman Jason M. Rodriguez and Dennis Bingham, a baseball biographer and Chicago historian. Rodriguez is an award-winning announcer who has formed for such publications as Crain’s Chicago Business, the Chicago Sun-Times and more. Bingham spent decades with the Chicago Police Department, is the partnership’s citizen artist and accent writer, and just completed a above activity with Major League Baseball.

For a antecedent on abandonment your job in a recession:
CONTACT
Jay Rodriguez
312-515-9459
www.JayRodChicago.com

Dream Town Sells Highest Priced

Chicago's a lot of big-ticket home auction of the year bankrupt a few weeks ago to the tune of $5.6 million. Christine Carr of Dream Town Realty was the affairs abettor on the property, which awash afterwards 56 canicule on the market. The 12,000-square-foot abode complete in 2007 is amid in the Chicago adjacency of Lincoln Park on the 2000 block of N. Howe Street.

The Howe Street abode was listed in May for $5,999,000 and went beneath arrangement by mid-July. According to abstracts from the Multiple Listing Service of Northern Illinois (MLSNI), the 6-bedroom, 5.5-bath abode awash in a abbreviate auction on August 25th for $399,000 below the allurement price.

"The home has a lot of abundant affairs credibility that helped move it off the bazaar in beneath than three months," said Christine Carr, who represented the applicant of the property. "And it was complete on an colossal lot, which adds abundant amount in a adjacency like Lincoln Park."

Other highlights of the 17-room elevator-equipped abode are a home theater, access gallery, library, bar and gaming room, multi-level wine cellar, 36 x 24 sq. ft. ancestors room, and rooftop putting green. Chicago's a lot of big-ticket home awash this year aswell has a four-car absorbed barn and laundry on both the aboriginal and additional floors. The accommodation accouter appearance an alfresco fireplace, kitchen, bar and lounge, and bare angle of the cityscape. The custom attic plan is outfitted with top-of-the-line finishes and it has a advanced electronics arrangement with aegis cameras.

After the $5.6 actor paid for Howe Street, the next closet acquirement amount in Chicago for 2009 is addition single-family home amid two blocks abroad on the 1800 block of N. Orchard Street. It awash for $5.1 actor in March and in April a abode on the 1900 block of N. Mohawk Street (also in the aforementioned neighborhood) went for $4.4 million.

"The affluence home bazaar in Chicago is absolutely active," Carr said apropos to residential absolute acreage listed for $750,000 and up. "Dream Town has developed a abstracted Luxury Sales analysis to handle all of the high-end acreage listings we're accepting this year."

The August copy of Dream Town's affluence advertisement address even includes an aboriginal Keck House, advised in 1946 by the acclaimed artisan duo Keck + Keck (http://www.dreamtown.com/properties/2939-w-catalpa.html). The company's website aswell has a Chicago Luxury Home Search that accurately targets upmarket backdrop aural city-limits banned (http://www.dreamtown.com/getSearchPage.do?page=luxurysearch). Suburban abode hunters can use Dream Town's Chicago Suburb Search to attending for flush backdrop in alfresco villages.

According to MLSNI bazaar statistics for acquirement prices $750,000 and above, the City of Chicago had about 600 affluence sales in the endure nine months. Since the alpha of January there were 263 closings on alone homes and 330 closings for absorbed backdrop (condos and townhomes). Average auction amount for alone affluence homes awash in Chicago this year is $1,434,655 and absorbed backdrop averaged $1,185,268.

There are currently about 2,000 affluence listings on the Chicago residential absolute acreage bazaar (properties priced $750,000+). Carr is one of the across agents that specialize in affluence home sales and purchases. She has been with Dream Town Realty back 2005 (www.dreamtown.com/agents/christine-carr.html).

About Dream Town Realty
Dream Town is abundantly accustomed as the baton in online Chicago absolute estate. Their top-ranked website (http://www.DreamTown.com) receives tens of bags of different visitors weekly. The aggregation has developed proprietary technology and applications to advance online abode hunting and action the a lot of beat Internet home seek accessible for Chicago buyers today. Dream Town was founded in 1998. It has 120+ able agents who accommodate residential applicant and agent services, in accession to capacity for commercial, all-embracing and REO sales.

DreamTown.com Provides First-Ever

Dream Town Realty, a avant-garde in online absolute acreage technology in Chicago, has appear the absolution of a casting new website affection that displays adapted home sales abstracts every 10 minutes. For the aboriginal time anytime consumers can appearance absolute acreage statistics in absolute time for the city, neighborhoods, and alone residential barrio in Chicago. DreamTown.com is the alone online chump antecedent to broadcast actual apartment advice for such specific Chicago markets.

Previously, stats of this affectionate were put out annually. Now, with the accomplishing of Dream Town's new tool, home buyers and sellers are able to acceptance up-to-the-minute, neighborhood-specific Chicago home sales stats from their computers at any time. This is the alone chump ability for abundant residential absolute acreage abstracts pulled anon from the MLS six times per hour for all 181 Chicago neighborhoods (www.dreamtown.com/neighborhoods/chicago-neighborhoods.html).

"Never afore has there been an online ability this precise," said the admiral and co-founder of Dream Town Realty, Yuval Degani. "It provides the advice home buyers and sellers charge to accomplish abreast decisions. If anyone is analytic to acquirement a attic in Bucktown, they can appear actuality and see what the boilerplate list-versus-sale-price is for absorbed backdrop in that exact adjacency for the accomplished 30 days, endure three months or accomplished three years."

Instead of lumping neighborhoods calm into association areas, the new Dream Town appliance targets the different coordinates of every individual adjacency alone to accumulation abundant added accurate information. Results are represented in bar graph, spreadsheet and table form, accessible aback to 2006. The abstracts aswell differentiates absorbed apartment (condos, townhomes and multi-unit buildings) from alone apartment (single-family homes).

Consumers accept the advantage to analysis annual, annual or account trends as far aback as three years ago. However, a lot of Chicago home buyers and sellers are absorbed in added contempo sales numbers, which is why the apparatus includes abstracts for the accomplished 30 canicule and accomplished 3 months as well.

Dream Town's "real time" absolute acreage statistics affectation the amount of sales, boilerplate auction price, boilerplate amount per aboveboard foot, boilerplate account price, and boilerplate bazaar time for appointed neighborhoods or all of Chicago. The page defaults to citywide figures, but neighborhoods can be called from an alphabetized dropdown card (www.dreamtown.com/stats).

Sales stats for Chicago address barrio are aswell accessible on DreamTown.com. The website has a Chicago Building Directory of about 900 residential condominiums with monthly, annual and anniversary abstracts on boilerplate sales price, account price, price/sq. ft., canicule on the market, and sales aggregate for the alone buildings.

"There are 5 altered means to attending up residential buildings," said Mr. Degani of the directory's usability. "You can locate a abode by name, address, zip code, adjacency or map search."

Condo shoppers can see which units are accessible and which accept afresh sold. The agenda has added data on the buildings, including the year built, amenities, parking options, pet policy, absolute amount of units, architecture material, location, and adjacency advice (www.dreamtown.com/buildings/).

About Dream Town Realty
Dream Town is abundantly accustomed as the baton in online Chicago absolute estate. Their top-ranked website receives tens of bags of different visitors weekly. The aggregation has developed proprietary technology and applications to empower online abode hunters and action the a lot of beat Internet home seek accessible for Chicago buyers today. Dream Town Realty provides residential applicant and agent services, in accession to commercial, all-embracing and REO sales, and Veteran Relocation Services. The aggregation aswell has a new home architecture and advance analysis alleged Dream Town Builders and Remodeling.

Long-time Chicago Real Estate Agent Joins Dream Town Realty

Dream Town Realty, a Chicago absolute acreage allowance with award-winning web resources, welcomes the accession of Paula Yates to the company's residential sales team. Ms. Yates has formed in the Chicago across for years. She is one of two agents to accompany the agency in November.

Ms. Yates has been in the absolute acreage business for 12 years. She comes to Dream Town with millions of dollars in sales and several awards beneath her belt. In accession to her acquaintance in the field, Ms. Yates has a ample ability of Chicago's assorted neighborhoods and acreage types. Her specialty is new architecture sales and she is accustomed by the Home Builders Association of Chicago for her adroitness at affairs new homes.

"Dream Town is an accomplished aggregation to plan for," said Ms. Yates. "The casework and technology they action is just amazing. I adulation accepting able to accommodate such beat online accoutrement to my audience and the centralized business abetment is a big additional for me."

Dream Town afresh launched the fourth adaptation of its website with new and bigger appearance and even bigger account than its award-winning third-generation site. It is the aboriginal to broadcast "live" home sales statistics for every individual adjacency in Chicago. The abstracts is adapted every 10 account and accessible online at www.dreamtown.com/stats. It allows consumers to see accepted advice on boilerplate advertisement price, bazaar time, sales price, amount per aboveboard foot, amount of sales, and percent change from the antecedent year. DreamTown.com aswell has a casting new Interactive Map Search that allows homebuyers acquisition listings by "drawing a seek area" on Chicago artery map powered by Google (www.dreamtown.com/search-map.jsp).

Ms. Yates accustomed a "Diamond Award" for outstanding achievement in sales from the Home Builders Association of Chicago in 2004, afterwards her affairs topped $27 million. In 2005, she accustomed a "Platinum Award" for the aforementioned account and she got the "Bronze Award" in 2006.

"We are admiring to acceptable an abettor with the affectionate of success Paula has already accomplished in her career," said Yuval Degani, admiral and co-founder of Dream Town Realty. "She comes to us with a solid accomplishments in affairs residential acreage and the activity of a first-year agent."

Prior to accepting her absolute acreage license, Ms. Yates formed in accessible relations and accident marketing. "The abilities I developed in my beforehand professions accept accurate acutely advantageous for affairs homes," said Ms. Yates. "And now I accept the added account of Dream Town's highly-effective web business outlets."

Ms. Yates continues to be a top ambassador and an able in Chicago absolute acreage sales. View added advice about Paula Yates at www.dreamtown.com/agents/paula-yates.html

About Dream Town Realty
Dream Town is abundantly accustomed as the baton in online Chicago absolute estate. Their top-ranked website, www.DreamTown.com, receives tens of bags of different visitors weekly. The aggregation has developed proprietary technology and applications to advance online abode hunting and action the a lot of beat Internet home seek accessible for Chicago buyers. Dream Town Realty provides residential applicant and agent services, in accession to commercial, all-embracing and REO sales, and Veteran Relocation Services. The aggregation aswell has a new home architecture and advance analysis alleged Dream Town Builders and Remodeling (www.dreamtown.com/buy/chicago-home-builder.htm).