January 30, 2020

Cinespace Chicago Film Studios is proud to announce a five-year pledge of $50,000 to the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital in support of the Pediatric Mobile Medical Unit. The doctor’s “office on wheels” takes primary care to children in underserved communities on Chicago’s South Side.

January 11, 2020

Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, located on the west side of Chicago and currently the second-largest film studio in the country, received the "Compadre of the Year" Award from the Little Village Chamber of Commerce and the Little Village Rotary Club.

December 13, 2019

Cinespace Chicago Film Studio President Alex Pissios received the Distinguished Community Leadership Award from SOS Children’s Villages Illinois during the organization’s Annual Meeting last week.

December 10, 2019

Chicago Magazine features Cinespace Chicago Film Studios. The Hollywood-size saga of how Alex Pissios made Chicago a TV and film capital. 

September 26, 2019

Latinos Progresando Hosts Annual MEX Talks

June 15, 2019

An entertainment incubator called Stage 18 will take up shop at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, a nearly 52-acre film studio that boasts TV shows such as “Empire” and “Chicago Fire” as clients.

May 02, 2019

“Vice,” “The Dark Knight” star Christian Bale on using celebrity for good

March 28, 2019

Alex Pissios CEO of Cinespace and Sinai Hospital donate to school in Lawndale

February 28, 2019

Filmmaking Is Booming In Chicago, With A Record 520 Projects Shot Here Last Year, Emanuel And Pritzker Tout with some 13,000 jobs that were supported by the film industry in 2018, up from 5,000 in 2011, the city said.

February 28, 2019

Cinespace Chicago Film Studio President Alex Pissios, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Ald. Michael Scott Jr. (24th) walk through the studio, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2019. Illinois film industry generated $473M in 2018.

February 28, 2019

Dick Wolf’s three Chicago-shot shows were renewed for new seasons, and production space is being added. "I'm turning business away," says Cinespace President Alex Pissios.

February 28, 2019

TV, Film Biz Booms in Chicago as Cinespace Expands Into Lawndale. Alex Pissios with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. JB Pritzker in Cinespace Chicago Film Studios.

March 18, 2019

Empire” shoots in Chicago at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios on the West Side. New York, however, is where the show is set and where Lucious Lyon (played by the Chicago born and Cleveland raised Terrence Howard) grew up and launched the record label from nothing with Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson).

January 29, 2019

An internship program at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios is giving underserved young adults from the West Side an opportunity to find jobs, union memberships and more. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter has the details.

January 31, 2016

Crain's article on best event spaces in Chicago.

January 24, 2019

Netflix series 'Mixtape' to begin filming in Chicago next month

January 06, 2016

Alex Pissios is a Chicago boy, born and raised. He grew up attending Holy Trinity Church in Chicago. His dad was a special education teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, and his mother was a stay-at-home-mom until he and his siblings went to school. The family traces their Greek roots to Kastoria.

October 31, 2015

“Chicago Fire” actor Eamonn Walker had a somewhat understandable reason for not wearing a Halloween costume to the first annual Galaween benefit Saturday at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios:

October 29, 2015

Nikolaos Mirkopoulos, the founder of Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, has received a top honor from the city — a street named after him.

March 22, 2014

Chicago real estate developer Alex Pissios was struggling through the recession in 2007, like everyone else, when a chat with his uncle at a wedding in Toronto changed his life.

September 26, 2014

The location of the party is kept secret from the hundreds of guests — who will be herded onto buses once they arrive in Chicago and settle into their hotel rooms to ensure the location remains top secret. The party could take place in the Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the 1.45 million square foot facility where “Chicago Fire” is filmed, according to Crains Chicago Business, which also tagged Fleetwood Mac as the possible entertainment.

September 24, 2014

DePaul students sometimes forget that some programs once took place in small buildings and used outdated equipment. The DePaul School of Cinema in the College of Computing and Digital Media started in a 20-foot-15-inch room in SAC (room 266), and students produced their work with half-inch VHS cameras.

January 17, 2014

#1. Chicago, IL It may be bitterly cold off the shores of Lake Michigan this time of year, but when it comes to moviemaking, Chicago is as red-hot as they get, 

January 07, 2014

Whether he was aware of it or not, Nick Mirkopoulos, the late owner of Cinespace Studios, was a proponent of Chicago’s motto, “Make no little plans.”

December 13, 2014

For the past three years, Cinespace Studios has hosted a Holiday Party, with Santa Claus in attendance, games, gifts and good things to eat, for the children in the Lawndale neighborhood where the studio is located.

April 29, 2013

The largest film studio outside of Chicago is on the West Side.

April 04, 2013

As we’ve mentioned, the highly anticipated film Divergent, based on Veronica Roth’s young adult novel about a teenage girl named Tris (Shailene Woodley) who lives in a dystopian Chicago, will begin a 60-day shoot in Chicago this spring, and already there is speculation about which of the city’s landmarks they’ll choose as their background