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7/25/2007
Ambreen Ali, Medill Reports Chicago
(Medill Reports Chicago) It is in that spirit that the Chicago Council on Global Affairs formed the Global Chicago Center in 1999. "Civic and community leaders can shape a city's ...
 
 
1/17/2007
Mayor's Press Office, City of Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley today joined officials of Motorola and the People’s Republic of China in announcing two major gifts to the Chicago Public Schools Chinese Language and Culture Program….
 
 
1/10/2007
Chicago 2016 Committee
The City of Chicago and Chicago 2016 announced today the formation of World Sport Chicago, a long-term alliance that will promote the development of amateur sport and international competition in the Chicagoland area….
 
 
1/7/2007
TOM DAYKIN, Staff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel Inc.
Getting mileage out of proximity; In this age of a global economy, Chicago, with its nearness to Milwaukee, can help draw more businesses, investors and residents to southeastern Wisconsin
 
 
1/4/2007
Chicago Daily Herald
The news from the recent, international climate negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya, was not heartening.
 
 
11/30/2006
Paul Merrion, Crain's Chicago Business
(Crain’s) — South African Airways plans to launch Chicago’s first nonstop service to Africa next year, with four flights a week from O’Hare International Airport.
 
 
11/17/2006
Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune
It's easy to overlook the fine little exhibit on green architecture in Chicago now at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The show, …
 
 
11/8/2006
Ilan Brat, The Wall Street Journal
CHICAGO -- To understand how Chicago has avoided the decline that has ravaged so many other Midwestern cities, take a look at a massive 98-year-old building in a crook of the Chicago River just outside the city's famed downtown Loop….
 
 
8/18/2006
NEIL MacFARQUHAR, New York Times
CHICAGO, Aug. 18 — The stretch of Devon Avenue in North Chicago also named for Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, seems as if it has been transplanted directly from that country. The shops are packed with traditional wedding finery, and the spice mix in the restaurants’ kebabs is just right.
 
 
3/18/2006
The Economist
APPEARANCES often deceive, but, in one respect at least, the visitor’s first impression of Chicago is likely to be correct: this is a city buzzing with life, humming with prosperity, sparkling with new buildings, new sculptures, new parks, and generally exuding vitality. The Loop, …