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Plenty of companies around Chicago talk, or at least dream, grandiosely about global expansion. Many never make it. This one did.

There is an elite group of people around the world willing to travel anywhere to see Shakespeare well done.

As Chicago and other global cities increasingly grapple with poor air quality, solutions to the problem vary by location.

"The future of mankind will be dominated by 20 to 25 super-regions, with Chicago prominent among them," says Michael Fassnacht, who exits the economic development agency this month.

"Little Italy is no longer a thing,” says one restaurant operator. “It has come and gone.”

Chicago's transit system may need to make cuts and raise fares after COVID relief funds phase out, but riders won't likely see a systemic collapse like Venezuelan commuters experienced in the 2010s.

We know Venice is sinking. What about Chicago, which accounts for about 234 square miles of land?

The day the film earned 13 Academy Award nominations was also the day the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock was set to reflect that the world is now closer to apocalypse than it has been at any time before.

Chicago’s transit system has international fans, and your commuter train might be an international influencer.

In the elite realm of haute cuisine where Alinea resides, the influence, name recognition, and drawing power of the restaurant extends well beyond Chicago to the dining capitals of the world.