World Resources Chicago
World Resources Chicago was started in 2004 to help businesses and non-profit organizations respond to global challenges and new opportunities.
Michael Diamond
Founder
As a global city, Chicago is home to people from over 200 countries who speak over 100 different languages. Greater metropolitan Chicago hosts over 400 major corporate headquarters including 36 corporate headquarters of the top Fortune 500 companies. Learn more about Chicago’s impact on the global economy and diversity.
Chicago has one of the worl’ds largest and most diversified economies, with more than four million employees, and generates an annual gross regional product (GRP) of over $609 billion which makes it the 23rd largest economy in the world.
Recent advances in technologies of communication and transportation have increased flows of people, capital, information, goods and services, and have created greater competition for access to markets.
In order to respond to these challenges of globalization and to enable businesses as well as civil society organizations and local communities to take advantage of the many opportunities these changes provide it is vital to understand what local resources and global connections are available and how they can be effectively used.
