December 8, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Ian Maule / AP, Download Report (PDF), As technology reshapes media ecosystems, Council polling finds the US public is struggling to weed out fact from fiction., Over the last decade, the decline of traditional news outlets and rise...

February 14, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Emma Chanlett-Avery, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This brief analyzes the 2017 ASEAN summit where four of the region's major maritime democracies discussed the revival of quadrilateral cooperation for a free and open Indo-Pacific., At the Association...

June 7, 2017, RESEARCH Report, Conner Freeman, Download Report (PDF), The vision for Chicago’s global strategy begins with an inventory of the city’s assets, needs, and opportunities., Global cities are hubs of the urbanizing world and increasingly influential players on the world stage. Thei...

January 23, 2020, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Results of a Chicago Council Survey find that more Americans think the January 3 drone strike that killed Iranian Quds Force Commander Quasem Soleimani has made the United States les...

February 4, 2014, RESEARCH Report by Dina Smeltz , Juliana Kerr , and Craig Kafura, Tom Gill, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), A Chicago Council on Global Affairs report which shows bipartisan support among Midwestern business leaders to pass immigration reform., Business Leaders on Imm...

September 10, 2012, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Radek Kucharski, Download Report (PDF), After a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans recognize China’s growing influence and Asia’s importance to the US., Key Findings, For the first time since the question was fir...

September 29, 2015, RESEARCH Report by Saeid Golkar, Kamran Gholami, The Islamic Republic of Iran has promoted despondency and hopelessness to the extent that citizens become paralyzed and incapable of challenging the political status quo., Social riots, popular uprisings, and revolutions are amo...

September 23, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Kris Hartley, Download Report (PDF), Cities have a crucial role to play in translating the high-level, ambitious, and multidimensional vision of the SDGs into practice through local policies—that is, localization., Key Findings, The United Nations’ 2030 ...

April 13, 2000, RESEARCH Report by Richard C. Longworth, Allen McGregor/Flickr, Download Report (PDF), America’s cities are becoming increasingly important actors on the global stage. The idea that cities must reflexively submit to impersonal global forces is giving way to the recognition that ...

September 25, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Karen Weigert, Download Report (PDF), An estimated 100 billion square meters of new construction is expected in countries without mandatory building energy codes. A consistent set of principles can frame the work needed to shape thriving, low-carbon cities.,...