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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.