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"In addition to a world-class museum, the 19.3-acre campus will feature a gymnasium, a fruit and vegetable garden, a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground, and so much more." The Obama ...
The Foundation refused, and when a resident asked Obama himself to sign the agreement at a September public meeting about the library, Obama refused as well. The issue many Chicagoans take with ...
president of the Obama Foundation. The presidential center will include a museum, forum building, public plaza, athletic center, play area and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. The opening ...
Prof. Richard A. Epstein’s “Chicago Betrays the Public Trust for Obama” (op-ed, July 26) is particularly significant. It reveals the casual way the shocking backroom deal and devious land ...
The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a presidential library like no other. The four-building, 19-acre “working center for citizenship,” set to be built in a public park on the South ...
The announcement, made Wednesday by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Obama Foundation and the Chicago Public Library, should be welcome news for some South Siders who’ve worried that the presidential ...
Mr. Obama did not elaborate, though the city is still debating the proposed library plans. On Wednesday, Chicago's city council will vote on a plan to transfer about 20 acres of public parkland to ...
The museum, the tallest of the three buildings, will hold exhibition space, public spaces, offices and education and meeting rooms, according to the Obama Foundation. The forum and library ...
Former President Barack Obama appeared in a TikTok video for a public library in Illinois and penned a letter to librarians thanking them for facilitating access to books—part of a new campaign ...
president of the Obama Foundation. The presidential center will include a museum, forum building, public plaza, athletic center, play area and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. The opening ...