JWT Keeps Lights on in Chicago

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NEW YORK JWT Chicago, in the midst of closing down, has retained its Illinois Bureau of Tourism business, which requires that the agency have an office in the state. As such, the WPP Group shop will maintain a small service hub in Chicago to handle the account, an agency representative said.

The office will be staffed with both account management and creative executives — about 20 in all, according to the rep.

JWT moved to shutter its Chicago office in April after years of business erosion, particularly involving once major client Kraft Foods.

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