And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the Act Spiles, with your host, David Axelrod.

In the early 1990s, when I was working for Marriage Them Daily in Chicago as a strategist as a consultant, I ran into a young woman named Patty Solis, who was a really inspiring kid from the southwest side of Chicago, who had a great story and a lot of energy and interest and commitment to public service.

I didn't know then that she'd go on to be a major figure in American politics, one of the closest aides to Hillary Clinton for 17 years, her campaign manager in 2008.

Now a commentator at CNN, but Patty has enormous insights into Hillary, into this process, and we sat down and talked about it the other day.

Patty Solis Doyle, lots of people know you around this country as a political figure, someone who served in the White House, someone who ran campaigns, someone who's a now a commentator on CNN, on politics.

We know you here in Chicago as a Chicagoan. Tell me a little bit about your family and how the Solis clan came to Chicago.

Well, I was born and raised in Chicago, but my parents immigrated to Chicago in the early 1950s. My dad came over first twice illegally, twice deported.

Because he couldn't get papers to come over.

Because he couldn't get papers to come over. And my dad's a kind of guy who never got a speeding ticket.

Always the first guy to go vote on election day, got up at four, so he'd be the first guy at the polls.

Never paid every credit card on time in full. Never broke a law in his life, but except for this one.

And why did he break the law?

Because he wanted a better life for his family, for his kids. He was the youngest of nine kids, the only boy.

His father died two months before he was born in a car accident.

And so he had to be the man of the house at a very young age. At the age of six, he had to drop out of school.

In third grade, and he took jobs like shining shoes and selling candy on the streets so that he could help his mom, you know, live basically and support a family.

He met my mom at 15 and fell in love instantaneously.

And they had a very long engagement of 10 years.

And, you know, he just felt he owed it to my mother and to his kids to get a better life.

He didn't want his kids to live the same kind of life he had lived.

So you settled in Chicago. How many brothers and sisters do you have?

I'm the youngest of six. There's two brothers and three sisters.

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