CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Rahm Emanuel's work in the Clinton White House has prompted a $100 million plan he says would keep kids busy after school and help lower youth violence

While the initiative sounds like Maggie Daley's After School Matters program, the mayoral candidate says his plan is more comprehensive and sparked by his work with President Clinton in passing the 1994 crime bill.

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"It's based on a very simple .... strategy of putting more police and the streets and getting kids, guns and drugs off the street," he said.

Emanuel's plan would run five days a week, be staffed by CPS teachers and non-profit personnel. The program would provide education, artistic and athletic activities as well as three meals a day to those who qualify.

"Kids would be safe and kids would be learning," he said, giving students activities between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

More than 200,000 thousand CPS students would participate and the cost would run about $100 million annually. The money to pay for it would come in part from advertising on city vehicles, CPS and grants from the federal government and non-profits.