Manufacturers need state-of-the-art logistics to bring raw materials into their plants and then finished products to global markets. Moreover, Chicago must be a high-capacity transportation hub for the sake of regional growth.
Initiatives like this are desperately needed in our troubled times, but at the same time they should be promoting a change in a paradigm that has been tragically unsuccessful. It is time for self-assessment and constructive criticism.
While many leaders talk about the urgency of transitioning to clean energy, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is acting, and making major changes that will deliver cleaner air and new jobs for Chicago in the near future.
President Obama announced nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next two years.
Are Fonkoze and Mercy Corps unwittingly helping major stockholders in the reinsurance firm Swiss Re turn Haitian women into Buffett's "girl(s) in the convertible?"
What does it mean to be a survivor today and what role does being a witness play in how we understand contemporary history?
In today's world, the voices of moderation are becoming fewer and fewer, while extremist groups are growing in size and are flexing more and more political muscle.
By Maura Kelly September in New York is known for Fashion Week, 9/11 memorials, the General Assembly at the U.N. and increasingly, the Clinton Glo...
Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Al Gore may all be remembered for the work they did after the end of their hugely successful midlife careers. And what about the rest of us?
Men must be called upon not to act "on behalf of" women, but to support women to have more power to act on behalf of themselves.
We each have a small section on a large canvas to paint, and, as teens and as human beings, it is hard for us to see more than our little square of the canvas. My experience at CGI showed me the WHOLE canvas.
Last week at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City was at once a most exhilarating and tiring week. President Clinton continue...
Clinton promised a new kind of unity based not on enforced conformity but on encouraging a "spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together.... And we will rise or fall together... [with] a greater sense of common purpose."
With all the causes in the world you could support, maybe cook stoves don't top your list. But in my opinion, they should because, much like unsafe dr...
Last week, the world's super achievers convened in New York for three days to celebrate their shared global citizenship as well as their accomplishmen...
Last week after spending three life-changing days at the Clinton Global Initiative , I came away with a profound sense of hope, inspired by all the participants present and by no less than President Clinton himself.