Polling conducted in July for the 2021 Chicago Council Survey found seven out of ten Americans supported the withdrawal of US combat forces from Afghanistan by September 11.

December 1, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Sam Dong and Karl Friedhoff, Noah Berger / AP, Download Report (PDF), Americans of all partisan stripes agree free trade agreements are important, but Republicans want them with a side of trade barriers., Since re-entering the White House this y...

November 12, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), The public generally does not see current US trade policies toward China as benefiting Americans., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds Americans concerned abou...

Concern for the state of the planet spans generations, 2021 Chicago Council Survey data show.

October 7, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Oded Balilty / AP, Download Report (PDF), As the war in Gaza continues, rifts between progressive and moderate Democrats are deepening—and cracks within the Republican Party are also beginning to show., The security partnership bet...

August 1, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura , Dina Smeltz , Joshua Busby , Jonathan Monten , and Jordan Tama, AP Photos, Download Data (ZIP), We explore whether foreign policy professionals and the American public are on the same page when it comes to America’s strategy abroa...

The 54-percentage-point gap between Democrat and Republican views on climate change is the largest in the 2020 Chicago Council Survey.

September 22, 2021, RESEARCH Book by Richard C. Longworth, 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 a Chicago dominated by isolationism. It l...

March 2, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura , Dina Smeltz , Joshua Busby , Joshua D. Kertzer , and Jonathan Monten, David Strickler, Download Report (PDF), The 2020 Chicago Council on Global Affairs-University of Texas at Austin survey explores to what extent Democratic, Republi...

September 29, 2005, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), The 2005 Chicago Council Survey explored public opinion on democracy promotion post-September 11 world as one of the core principles of US foreign policy., Americans on Promoting Democracy , Introduction , Democ...