right at their foot to be able to go and learn about the president, to have him show his importance and show how much he cares about this city by bringing such a major resource to that area is incredible. i think the city will do well and i think that community is really going to improve with this huge resource at their reach. the president talked in more detail about why he picked chicago to host the presidential library. listen to this. all the strands of my life came together, and i really became a man when i moved to chicago. that s where i was able to apply that early idealism to try to work in communities in public service, that s where i met my wife that s where my children were born and the people there, the community, the lessons that i learned, they are all based right in this few square miles where we ll be able to now give something back and bring the world back home after this incredible journey.
i mean he clearly, allison, loves chicago. do you think that s where the obamas will be headed in 2017? well the great part is they are going to stay in washington until sasha graduates from high school which is credible given that it s such a pivotal age for her and i m really happy that they decided it s important for her to be there until after high school. after that i see them going between new york and chicago, going back and forth. they are going to be like rock stars. they are going to be so popular once his administration is over once they are out of office that they will probably be i don t know if they will have a permanent home. they will be moving and traveling so much, but, again, what i love is that they understand that sasha s last year of high school is the most important thing be and they want her to feel you know confident as she begins to sort of empty the nest and go on to college. recently the president had talked more openly about his plans for life after
richard j.daley was chicago s original boss. his power extended far beyond the city limits. richard m.daley followed in his father s footsteps when he was elected mayor in 99. i love being mayor. greatest job in america. if you have issues, you don t blame anybody, you solve the issues. chicago averaged 800 homicides a year in the 580s, twice the number of murders in the city today. as we became the laughing stock of the world. chicago can do better. chicago will do better. i welcome the challenge. thank you. daley s 22 years in old made him he longest serving mayor. like his father before him, he had a vision to make sure a global city that attracted big business and young professional
not in a foreign land where we hear about war. 50%. it s my job, it s your job. when people want to know how a trading post on the lake became a world class city, all you have to do is send them to the top of the john hancock and have them look for themselves. why chicago? because it s at the cross roads of everything. mayor emanual wants to capitalize on that. 100 cities that really drive the world economy. chicago s in it. unlike berlin, unlike new york or shanghai, we re not guaranteed a lot. what we do in the next two to three years will guarantee whether in 20 or 30 years we re in the top 50 or we slide back. i m determined to keep us in that top 50 and moving.
i got to. i have got to. two kids need me to walk. i hope i beat them to walking. that s what s up. how many times did you get shot? six times. i could have been dead. i look at it like this. when i first got put in my chair it was time for me to sit down. instead of me going to jail i ended up in a wheelchair. trying to let me know to slow down. learned my lesson. it took a bullet to hit me to sit down. it ain t worth it. ain t worth nothing. just blocks away, the shooting continues. chicago police start another week of trying to put a stop to gun fire on the streets of chicago. this weekend saw nine people dying, including a teenager. tit for tat going back and forth. young guys, nobody over 30. days later there was another