Chicago Places 8th In Global Cities Ranking

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Crain's Chicago Business   |  Lorene Yue   |   October 21, 2008 12:39 PM


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.


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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 lan...
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 lan...
 
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