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The report highlights Chicago’s strengths, analyzes global city strategies, and offers recommendations the region can take to increase foreign investment.

This report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs confirms investing in human capital—workers’ education and skills—is key.

Amid a Brit-centric TV landscape and declining alcohol consumption, more and more Americans are embracing afternoon tea. Here’s where to enjoy it in Chicago.

This report examines implications of increasingly influential roles of global business, agricultural research, and the limited national research capacity of developing countries.

China is plotting their next five years at their fourth plenum. What does this mean for the US, and the world?

Across the city, schools that use curricula from foreign countries give a unique edge to K-12 students seeking a globally diverse education.

What’s really driving Washington’s new hard line on Caracas—is this a bold policy shift?

In picking fronts that offer the paths of least resistance, trilateral cooperation will maximize the presence of all three countries in ASEAN, maintaining balance in the region and making collective progress toward economic and development goals.

This paper explores how city leaders can use economic power to narrow the gap in wealth and opportunity.