The Obama Presidential Center s Ill-Conceived Site
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Yves here. Pretty much everyone hated Trump for being greedy and having no taste but Obama is no better. He barely had a foot out of the White House when he and Michelle cashed in with a record-setting joint book deal. The estate in Cape Cod is sterile. And then destroying an important and well loved public park for a monument to ego?
By Leonard C. Goodman, a Chicago criminal defense attorney and co-owner of the newly independent Reader. Produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute
Chicagoans mostly support the Obamas’ decision to build the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on the south side of Chicago. But few of us are aware of the controversy over the Obamas’ decision to site their private center on historic public parkland on the shores of Lake Michigan, as these important issues have not been widely covered in the mainstream press, including in any of Chicago’s major newspapers.