Patch Poll: Will NATO Summit Give the Chicago Region a Global Boost?

Geneva, Switzerland. London. The Hague. And now, Chicago?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has touted the NATO summit as a way to showcase Chicago on an international stage, and much of the Chicago area agreed with that notion, according to a Tribune/WGN-TV poll, conducted days before the NATO Summit began.

A total of 59 percent of voters in the six-county metropolitan area and 58 percent of city voters agreed that hosting NATO would improve Chicago's international standing, the poll found. About 3 out of 10 surveyed disagreed.

"If everything goes smoothly, it's a great opportunity for Chicago to step outside the shadows of other major cities in the U.S. and the world," Marc Hetherington, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, told the Tribune.

Now that the NATO Summit is winding down today, Monday, May 21, do you agree with this early poll?