October 9, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Sam Dong and Craig Kafura, Charles Krupa / AP, Download Report (PDF), While majorities of Democrats and Independents support a path to citizenship for immigrants living and working in the United States illegally, only four in 10 Republicans agree...

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James M. Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations joins the Council's Dina Smeltz to discuss the findings of the newly released 2019 Chicago Council Survey on how Americans view US foreign policy.

Partisanship has become a major factor in foreign policy attitudes in Chicago Council Surveys; not so long-ago opinions on foreign policy seemed immune to partisan impulses.

November 13, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Sam Dong, Aaron Favila / AP, Download Report (PDF), Unique parallel surveys find both publics agree trade and international engagement benefit their countries, but to different degrees., The competition between the United States...

Explore 100 Years of CCGA  Close , The book, "Chicago and the World," by Richard Longworth is a dual history, of a century of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and of the foreign policy battles and debates as they paraded across the Council's stage., The Council came to life in 1922 in ...

September 21, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Evan Vucci / AP, More than half of the US public supports a policy of cooperation and engagement with China, including a growing number of Republicans., US President Donald Trump is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sep...

October 5, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Mark Schiefelbein / AP, Download Report (PDF), Still, a majority of Americans overall continue to say the United States should not take a side in the Israel-Palestinian conflict., Once an enduring area of bipartisan c...