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It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the Obama Foundation with nearly 20 acres of Jackson Park as the site for the Obama Presidential Center.
On the concrete terrace on the south side of the Museum of Science and Industry, where journalists and officials gathered for the announcement, it was blistering too hot to process much beyond the need to find some shade.
Emanuel might have handed over a 99-year, $10 lease for
50 acres without getting a rise out of that sweltering captive audience.
If any of them were thinking about the battle over a similar gift to George Lucas, resolved barely two months earlier, when he gave up and took his museum to California, I didn t hear them mention it.
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This May 13 aerial photo shows the proposed site for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicagoâs Jackson Park.
Photo by Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune featured
By Alice Yin
Chicago Tribune Dec 19, 2020
Dec 19, 2020
This May 13 aerial photo shows the proposed site for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicagoâs Jackson Park. Photo by Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â A federal review into the historic effects of former President Barack Obamaâs proposed presidential center in Jackson Park officially concluded Thursday afternoon, further dashing hopes of opposition groups troubled by the impact of future construction on the storied South Side park.
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