I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They're great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don't like crowds that sit on their hands.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.
I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.
I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
Jonathan Mardukas: Why are you so unpopular with the Chicago police department?
Del: Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.
Del: Six bucks and my left nut says we're not going to be landing in Chicago.
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'