Owner David Shelist of The Denim Lounge, 2039 W. Roscoe, with jeans like the ones purchased by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times.

Protestors who don't want mental health facilities closed, disrupted a press conference where Mayor Emanuel helped plant a tree to honor Earth Day in the median at Garfield Boulevard and Western Avenue on Sunday, April 22, 2012. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times

** FILE ** In this July 14, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama throws out the first pitch to St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, not pictured, before the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis, Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Asked in an NBC "Today" show interview about the well-worn bluejeans he wore to the pitcher's mound to throw out the first pitch in last week's major league baseball All-Star game, Obama said, "I hate to shop." (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses an audience during a campaign stop Monday, March 19, 2012, on the campus of Bradley University, in Peoria, Ill. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Protestors who don't want mental health facilities closed, disrupted a press conference where Mayor Emanuel helped plant a tree to honor Earth Day in the median at Garfield Boulevard and Western Avenue on Sunday, April 22, 2012. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times