This Thanksgiving, the Council survey team is serving up tables of data on turkey, pies, and politics.

Where once there was one Midwest, rising and falling with the industrial era, there are now two Midwests, marching to different economic drummers.

There appears to be a dawning realization that the agriculture sector may be part of the solution to climate change, rather than a problem to be solved, by drawing down and storing carbon in farmland.

Rob Paral discusses the state of Illinois and Greater Chicago area leading by example on immigrant inclusion and legal policies.

While China might be losing friends in many countries, it still has the support of the Russian public.

April 14, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Giovanni Peri , Gaetano Basso , and Sara McElmurry, Charles DeLoye, Download Report (PDF), This report examines the long-term effects of keeping foreign-born students in local workforces—particularly to critical STEM and innovation fields—in driving US globa...

October 17, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Sara McElmurry , Juliana Kerr , Theresa Cardinal Brown , and Lazaro Zamora, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The United States needs pragmatic, sensible approaches to immigration that will improve the nation’s security while balancing its role in other key na...

ROK Alliance December 2012 On October 15, 2012, The Chicago Council on Global ... Korea relationship from a regional alliance into a global partnership. ... Korea has already made a name for itself in development assistance and global health

Our weekly round up of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

"Whether one loves Donald Trump or hates him, this daring operation shows what leadership in the executive branch looks like," Council Board Member Richard Porter writes following the US intervention in Venezuela.