CHICAGO – Chicago’s movie and TV business is rising.
As a large soundstage campus attracts extra storytellers to provide their work within the space, the previous homeowners of an area studio are working to construct out and diversify the workforce with job coaching packages.
The Windy Metropolis’s story is all the time being written, constructed on what got here earlier than and what the longer term holds in retailer.
A few of these tales make it on the display screen, each massive and small.
Two years in the past, Michael Scott Jr., a former Chicago alderman, left Metropolis Council and took the reigns of a program at Cinespace.
In 2011, Pat Quinn, then-Illinois governor, authorized the seed cash to construct the preliminary studios, and the positioning of a former metal manufacturing facility off sixteenth Road has grown to a campus of 55 soundstages, the biggest within the nation exterior of Hollywood and residential to productions watched by thousands and thousands.
Whereas the area has grown, so has this system Scott now oversees known as Cinecares, began by the studios former homeowners.
To study extra about Cinecares, watch the video within the participant above as Sean Lewis stories.
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