the whole city s ready for some football. nothing in chicago like the bears. throw some burgers and brats on and a couple of tall frosty beverages and you are having a fun time. that s how you do it. prediction, bears win the super bowl. another super bowl record, the first refrigerator to score. almost 30 years later but people love it like it was yesterday. at soldier field, tailgaters get the party started with cold beer and meat. lots and lots of meat. don t you know in case someone has a heart attack they can go in the ambulance and they are all set. almost 400,000 chicagoans live in food deserts. i made a pledge in the campaign that we were going to cut 400,000 people in the city of chicago who live in what are
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if you are someone who s has done well you are expect ed to give back to society. it s sort of the price of admission for living in chicago. mellody hopkins is a successful i businesswoman and film maker george lucas better half. she heads up after school matters a foundation that provides programs for more than 20,000 chicago public school kids. these young men and women, we are giving them a skill and education that gets you a career so they can achieve a middle-class life. when it comes to chicago s first family there s only one clan that has the obama s beat, the dalys. between you and your father you have run the city of chicago for what is it 43 of the last 55 years. do you think, mr. mayor, there should be term limits? definitely no. [ laughter ]
welcome to o hare international airport. as we celebrate the opening of runway 287. chicago s o hare airport once was america s busiest. a lot of work has been done to try to reclaim that crowd and rahm plans to be the guy to make it happen. when we say building a new chicago, we mean building a new chicago. [ applause ] we have a world-class work force, second to none. we have world-class transportation, stoekd none. this is church now. we have world-class city, second to none. and with this runway, the world s coming to chicago and chicago s coming to your house. [ applause ] something different is being unleashed in the united states and frankly around the world today. what s happening in many ways led by the city is a shift in how leaders at the local level think about economic development. bruce katz is a leading voice of what he calls the metro revolution. he believes cities are the incue
population of wheelchair bround chicagoans. some of them refuse to slow down. eric wilkins knows first hand what it is like to be paralyzed by bullets. we come together and we challenge each other to be at the top of our game. in the soldier field parking lot, eric returns to the national wheelchair softball tournament where he s been mvp two years in a row. dig, dig, dig. push, push, push. i have both of the mvps one from new york and one from chicago. i m trying to get the mvp this year. i got shot, stayed in the hospital five, six months. it had me stop and look at myself and i didn t like what i had become. eric survived the butte brutal gang wars that plagued the far south side in the 90s. how are you doing today, sir. all right. before my injury i lived my