Mayoral candidate Del Valle begins to emerge from shadows--Chicago Examiner
From Chicago Examiner, 1.31.2011
CHICAGO -- Miguel Del Valle is a modest man. Born and raised in Chicago, Del Valle grew up in the city’s near north and northwest sides working class neighborhoods. He’s got a certain salt-of-the-earth charisma that goes with the City of Big Shoulders upbringing.
Of Puerto Rican descent, Del Valle knows the city, county and state governments inside and out. Currently the city clerk, Del Valle was the first Latino to be elected to the Illinois Senate (he said he immediately joined the Black Caucus) and served for 20 years.
Before that he was a community organizer, education and health advocate at Association House, one of the original settlement houses, which provides services in English and Spanish to Chicago’s Humboldt Park and