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A newsletter from Crain’s Chicago Business and the Council. Each Sunday evening, we bring you fascinating coverage of Chicago's role in the wider world — and the ways global connections shape our lives here at home.
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Informing US foreign policy and national security discussions and debates through public opinion research, policy analysis, and public engagement.
Elevating global cities as central actors shaping world affairs and advancing city-based solutions to global challenges.
Identifying opportunities for US leadership in advancing global food security and nutrition and alleviating poverty through agricultural development.
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Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy
Advancing the group's pillars of prosperity and development will be at the very heart of competition with China in the coming decade.
Center on Global Cities
The regeneration strategies of the former industrial areas of Pittsburgh in the US and Germany's Ruhr offer lessons for other regions in economic transition.
Center on Global Food and Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture can help our food and agricultural systems become more resilient.
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