President Barack Obama has selected the University of Chicago to host his library and museum, sources have told the Chicago Tribune. Despite a flurry of reports Thursday that Chicago had won the ...

there were high hopes that he would choose to place his presidential library in his home state. But he chose Chicago — and ...

At an event in Washington last Saturday, President Obama told members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board that he hopes his presidential library is built in the city where his political career ...

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama has decided to build his presidential library on the South Side of Chicago, where his political career began. In a news release, the Barack Obama ...

Obama presidential library officials are dissatisfied with Chicago’s two bids for the multimillion-dollar facility as they work toward a decision early next year, according to a source close to ...

Forty stories up in his Chicago office, Marty Nesbitt can almost hear opinions from down below. Tasked with finding potential homes for the Barack Obama Presidential Library, Nesbitt knows exactly ...

"It's really a transformative development for the city of Chicago." Plans for former President Barack Obama's presidential library are underway in his hometown of Chicago's South Side. A rendering ...

We'll have a branch of the Chicago Library here. We'll have classrooms and recording studios, where young people can learn how to tell their stories," President Barack Obama said. Gov. JB Pritzker ...

President Obama faces an emotional choice ... The University of Hawaii is aggressively pursuing the library, as are potential patrons in Chicago. "It is a tough choice," Obama said, "but it's ...

Proponents of building President Obama’s library and museum on Chicago’s South Side say it could provide an economic boost to an area that the president himself once worked to revitalize.

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But Chicago's high water table makes it an expensive ... some of the groups demanding the CBA are organized along racial lines. The Obama Library South Side Community Benefits Agreement Coalition ...