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Queer farmers are challenging discriminatory legacies in agriculture, and envisioning an agricultural system that uplifts and celebrates LBGTQIA+ people.

Regenerative agriculture helps build just food economies, protecting Indigenous ways of knowing despite outside pressure to conform to globalized agricultural practices.

Council staff share how travel has shaped their worldview.

From Medellín to Chicago, digital nomads are on the rise, contributing significantly to the global economy. But locals worry these visitors are pricing them out.

Chef Johnny Clark calls his new Ukrainian restaurant Anelya a “political statement” to the world that Ukrainian food “isn’t just Russian with a twist” — and that it deserves a Michelin star of its own.

The Chicago City Council has tripled its legislation on foreign policy in the last four years.

Republicans with a very favorable view of the former president seem to prefer a US role that is more independent and less cooperative.

Chicago’s regional transit system may need to make severe cuts and raise fares after COVID relief funds phase out, but riders won't likely see a systemic collapse like Venezuelan commuters experienced in the 2010’s.

More Americans consider issues like weakening democracy and political polarization to be critical threats to the United States than foreign adversaries.

Chicago’s transit system has international fans, and your commuter train might be an international influencer.

For more than a century, tattoo artists have connected Chicagoans with other countries and cultures — a tradition that lives on, even as the industry changes.

A way to reduce traffic and pollution and improve city transit systems, cordoned pricing exists in several cities around the world. Could it work in Chicago?

The decline of Chicago’s central business corridor makes the future of downtown uncertain. Like international peers, Chicago may find pedestrian malls an effective path for urban revitalization.

The Kyrgyz community in Chicagoland is small, but its economic footprint is expanding. New Kyrgyz businesses are bridging Illinois and Central Asia.

Over the past 12 months, our pollsters tracked public attitudes on everything from the war in Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East.

How would you explain Chicago’s business culture to folks who have never been to the U.S.? Here’s how one expert does it.

Chicago recently launched a citywide composting initiative to divert food waste from landfills and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions — something other global cities have been tackling for years.

Integrating migrant children and their parents into local schools also integrates them into the local economy.

The public supports US participation in the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and more.

The US public supports meeting with the leaders of Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and more.