After twelve months, 56 community meetings, and several design tweaks, the Obama Presidential Center went before the Chicago Plan Commission ... The second floor of City Hall reverberated with ...

Mr. Lipson is one of more than 100 faculty at the University of Chicago who signed a public letter asking Mr. Obama to move his library ... the Obama Center if the plan genuinely promoted economic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Plan Commission unanimously approved ... that they won't be pushed out of their neighborhood if the Obama library is built in Jackson Park. "I am gonna get priced ...

Since last May, when former President Barack Obama unveiled conceptual ... of the Chicago Public Library — in Jackson Park’s northwest corner. The tower’s top floor could be a space for ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The head of the Group "Friends of the Parks" is complaining that plans for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum in Jackson Park seem to be moving too quickly for true ...

Back in May, Obama described it as “more like a campus,” with plans to position it as a “premier institution for training young people in leadership.” The project is scheduled to be ...

Barack Obama ... plans to build in Jackson Park, an historic public park, in the south side of Chicago. Obama pushed to have his center - which will be more than a traditional presidential library ...

Betting that the Obama presidential ... Icarus plans to rehab and rent out most of the units. The firm also has bought about 40 condos in Woodlawn, near the other potential library site, Jackson ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered another spirited defense Wednesday of his push to use public park land for a proposed Barack Obama presidential library near ... was asked why his plan calls only ...

but Barack and Michelle Obama are back—and they're getting down to business. The couple is scheduled to reveal plans for the presidential library and museum Wednesday in Chicago, according to ...

When you stand just right looking out from the 12th floor of Jackson ... “You’ll be able to see the library.” The Baird & Warner broker is referring to the Obama Presidential Center, which ...