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Plenty of companies around Chicago talk, or at least dream, grandiosely about global expansion. Many never make it. This one did.

The U.S. wants the UN court to use a land for peace framework to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.

The United Nations General Assembly has asked the organization’s court to give advice on what legal consequences Israel should face for its decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories.

There is an elite group of people around the world willing to travel anywhere to see Shakespeare well done.

As Chicago and other global cities increasingly grapple with poor air quality, solutions to the problem vary by location.

From the United Kingdom to China, youth unemployment has been a point of concern. But across the world there is also a growing number of young people who aren’t in school, don’t have a job, and aren’t in any sort of vocational training.

"The future of mankind will be dominated by 20 to 25 super-regions, with Chicago prominent among them," says Michael Fassnacht, who exits the economic development agency this month.

"Little Italy is no longer a thing,” says one restaurant operator. “It has come and gone.”

Chicago's transit system may need to make 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 2010s.

We know Venice is sinking. What about Chicago, which accounts for about 234 square miles of land?