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Video Series World Review with Ivo Daalder
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Yasmeen Abutaleb, Nirmal Ghosh, and Prashant Rao join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Emerging Leaders Class of 2024

Introducing the Emerging Leaders Class of 2024! Selected for their ambition and commitment to their community, these 20 members will spend the next year leaning into civil discourse about today’s global challenges and their impact on the city of Chicago. Together, they’ll develop the knowledge, networks, and skills to generate collective change on local and international scales.
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RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura
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A plurality of Americans—and a majority of Republicans—also say that US leaders are not paying enough attention to US-China competition.

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Explore a series of deep-dive conversations with global leaders from government, business, and civil society on the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and its impacts on cities.

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