On September 30, 2009, The Chicago Council released a Global Midwest Policy Brief titled “Climate and Energy – The Midwestern Stake.” Author Stephen Brick outlines the Midwest’s vital role in the national energy and climate debate. Brick is a nonresident s ...
On March 10, 2009, The Chicago Council released its first Global Midwest Policy Brief, “A Midwestern Marshall Plan? Well, Sort Of,” as part of its Global Midwest Initiative. Richard C. Longworth, currently a senior fellow at The Chicago Council on Global A ...
On March 31, 2011, The Chicago Council released a report, A Master Plan for Higher Education in the Midwest: A Roadmap to the Future of the Nation’s Heartland, the third report in the Council’s Heartland Papers series. The report is authored by James J. Du ...
On March 18, 2010, The Chicago Council released a report, Past Silos and Smokestacks: Transforming the Rural Economy in the Midwest, as part of its Heartland Paper series. The report, authored by Dr. Mark Drabenstott, founding director of the Center for Re ...
On April 28, 2009, The Chicago Council released a report, “Mexican Immigration in the Midwest: Meanings and Implications,” the first issue in its Heartland Paper series. The report explains that the Midwest region’s future economic growth may greatly depen ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Before the largest Chicago Council audience in two decades, former US Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner described the financial firestorm that greeted the new Obama administration, the “terrible choices” presente ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Despite war-weariness among the American people, the United States faces new and complicated challenges, not least “Russia’s blatant aggression in Ukraine,” and must remain strong and engaged militarily in the world, ...
Many of the questionable financial practices that led to the economic crisis of 2008 are far from over despite efforts by the Obama administration to boost consumer protections, argues Matt Taibbi. The slow US economic recovery has meant a stubbornly high ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), told The Chicago Council Friday that the leaked revelations of the agency’s “truly noble work” by Edward J. Snowden “has done significant an ...
Immigration policy is making headlines daily with conflicting perspectives on the prospects for reform. Nationwide, people agree that the current system doesn’t reflect the realities of a twenty-first century global economy and policymakers on both sides o ...
