Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Posted by John Chase at 3:35 p.m.; updated at 4:10 p.m. with Giannoulias' reaction Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mark Kirk said today that he supports the Supreme Court decision that effectively knocked down Chicago’s handgun ban. As a five-term....

Illinois is getting some attention from a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. (WGN-AM)-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Chicago today and Monday. His visit includes taking part in the Obama administration's public service...

Posted by John Byrne at 5:30 p.m. Moderate Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rep. Mark Kirk said today he's not worried about sharing the statewide ticket with conservative downstate governor candidate state Sen. Bill Brady. "On some of the social issues,......

All right, I admit it. I sold out. Last Wednesday night, I went on “The Colbert Report,” and I can't quite shake the feeling that I made a pact with the devil. But did I? I published a book four months ago, and everyone knows a sit-down with...

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalization By Richard C. Longworth Bloomsbury, 320 pages, $25.95 Reading Richard C. Longworth's riveting new book, "Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalization,"...

Kitchen workers--all of them Mexican--huddled around a man who flipped sausage chunks onto a deep-dish pizza with the lightning-quick wrist snap of a blackjack dealer. Wearing a crisp Lou Malnati's polo shirt, he was teaching them the right way to build a...

Obama, in an effort to make his opposition to the surge seem slightly less wrongheaded than it seems to be right now, has claimed that "during the debate" he said "there's no doubt that additional U.S. troops could temporarily......