Chicago's size and the diversity of its immigrant population, as well as its ability to attract international students, helped place it among the top 10 of a new listing of global cities.
Chicago landed in the eighth spot on the inaugural Global Cities Index, a listing compiled by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, management consultancy A. T. Kearney Inc. and Foreign Policy magazine, a subsidiary of Washington Post Co. The rankings appear in the November/December issue of Foreign Policy.
The top spot went to New York, while Kolkata, India -- formerly known as Calcutta -- finished the list of 60 cites.