At his second inauguration in May 2015, Emanuel startled his audience by dwelling almost exclusively on one, insistent demand — that Chicago not lose another generation of its youth to literal and metaphorical dead ends: “Share the values that made you who you are with someone who wants to grow up to be like you. Give an adolescent who was born without a prayer his first prayer at getting ahead. Find a way to let young men, invisible for too long, see hope, belief and expectation in your eyes. ... Years of silence and inaction have walled off a portion of our city. It is time to stop turning our heads and turning the channel. It is time for each of us to start breaking down those walls.”