After Mayor Daley’s announcement that he will be not be seeking re-election, Chicago’s business and civic leaders concerned with Chicago’s future status as a global city drafted a memorandum for the next administration entitled Capturing Chicago’s Global O ...
The United States and Canada enjoy one of the strongest relationships, with over $700 billion in bilateral trade annually. Energy trade is the largest component of this cross-border commerce exceeding $100 billion dollars annually and forming the largest i ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs partnered for the second year with global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney and Foreign Policy magazine to release a comprehensive ranking of how sixty-five cities from about forty countries are powering integrat ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Thirteen years after 9/11, the United States is still trapped in a climate of fear and insecurity, with two administrations having over-reacted in their own ways, inflicting deep and long-term damage to America’s stan ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released its task force report, A Shared Future: Economic Engagement of Chicago's Mexican Community, on September 12, 2006. The report concludes that the Chicago’s future economic growth and status as a first-tier ...
Global Chicago was produced by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in 2004, published by the University of Illinois Press. Once known for gangsters and meatpacking, Chicago was virtually synonymous with the rough and tumble side of the industrial era. T ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released its task force report, Keeping the Promise: Immigration Proposals from the Heartland, on June 10, 2004. The report concludes that immigrants play a vital role in health and prosperity of the country, and that ...
The Chicago Council convened a study group on Chicago’s global future in January 2007 to define the issues and set an agenda on how Chicago can compete and thrive as a first-tier global city. Although Chicago’s global city status is often debated, many of ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs launched a bipartisan task force in December 2011 to inform Midwestern leadership and public understanding of immigration and its importance to the region’s economic future. The task force seeks to forge consensus arou ...
Immigration is a demographic lifeline for metropolitan areas throughout the 12-state Midwest region, according to a report released by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Over the past 50 years, the Midwest population has been growing more slowly than ...
