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Exclusive details: Bid for Obama Library on Lake Michigan shore
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 3, 2014 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 07/05/2014 2:52:45 PM PDT by John W

ARLINGTON, Va. — Among the rival locations in Chicago for the Obama library and museum, the most majestic one hugs the Lake Michigan shore on the Southeast Side with a stunning view of the Chicago skyline.

More than pretty, the Chicago Lakeside site has vast potential to trigger massive related economic growth and create jobs in an often ignored part of the city. With a presidential library and museum as an anchor, large-scale private investment that otherwise might take a generation to occur could happen in a decade.

“It is the most incredibly beautiful site in the city of Chicago,” developer Dan McCaffery is telling me as we discuss the bid for the library and museum he submitted to the Barack Obama Foundation last month. We’re talking in the suburban Washington office of his Chicago-based firm, where I had an exclusive look at the bid.

McCaffery, in a partnership with U.S. Steel, is offering the foundation free land: a prime location near 79th and the lake, the eastern-most point of the 589-acre Chicago Lakeside project.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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To: John W

Appears near “Rainbow Beach Park”, also appropriate.


21 posted on 07/05/2014 3:22:55 PM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: SkyDancer
You looking for the Obama Library and Visitors Center?

Well this is it, right here on the Chicago River.

Books?

Books? At this time night, here?

I think you want the Obama Bath House on Wacker Drive.


22 posted on 07/05/2014 3:25:09 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: John W
Why another one?

They already have one with everything Obama has produced in his lifetime.

23 posted on 07/05/2014 3:25:14 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: John W

These grand edifices to every cat and dog past president are embarrassing.

They have more in common with temples to Roman Emperors, than research sites in a republic.


24 posted on 07/05/2014 3:25:41 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V)
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To: Jacquerie

More embarrassing is this cat/dog we elected twice.


25 posted on 07/05/2014 3:34:03 PM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: John W

It can’t be on the shore, it’ll be under water soon.


26 posted on 07/05/2014 3:34:47 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Iron Munro

That image is the correct one when finished.


27 posted on 07/05/2014 3:42:58 PM PDT by ncfool (Can America wait til 2016? or will it be to late to save the USA?)
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To: Iron Munro

CONSTRUCTION READY
That is America prepared by the OOOOOOOOOOObama.


28 posted on 07/05/2014 3:43:27 PM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: John W

It looks mostly empty, so the symbolism is good. And, anyone who’s been to Chicago knows that that massive empty deck would be usable maybe 3 months a year (or less). Or perhaps they could use it for sledding or luge? Chicago is the perfect place for the Obama memorial.

In terms of economic development, has anyone heard about the Clinton museum’s effect on the section of LIttle Rock where it’s located? If this man develops the area, it will drive the populations that have lived there for generations out, as it becomes gentrified. It’s exactly what’s happened to Washington DC. All the poor/working class blacks have been forced to move as the yuppies move in.


29 posted on 07/05/2014 3:44:26 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: BilLies
CONSTRUCTION READY

Hey!!

Don't tell me that Obama finally stumbled on to a "SHOVEL READY" project !!!


30 posted on 07/05/2014 3:45:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: John W

His liebrary should be inside a federal prison.


31 posted on 07/05/2014 3:49:26 PM PDT by dforest
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To: laweeks
How ‘bout a homosexual bathhouse since he’d be returning to his roots.


32 posted on 07/05/2014 3:50:18 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: SkyDancer
"Why such a huge building for one book and a couple of clipboards?"

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Lacks enough space for pens, phones and tribute to golf.

33 posted on 07/05/2014 3:58:49 PM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: Stormdog
"Put it where it belongs....Kenya."

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*snicker*

34 posted on 07/05/2014 3:59:51 PM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: RightGeek

If global warming is as bad as Glorious Leader says, shouldn’t his library be further inland?


35 posted on 07/05/2014 4:15:16 PM PDT by jayrunner
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To: Iron Munro

The bathhouse photo is precious!

good Job!


36 posted on 07/05/2014 4:17:13 PM PDT by jayrunner
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To: John W

How about Dearborn, Michigan? That’s where most the muzzies live.


37 posted on 07/05/2014 4:24:11 PM PDT by boycott
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To: trisham

A toxic waste dump


38 posted on 07/05/2014 4:25:23 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It’s better than the Clinton’s library.


39 posted on 07/05/2014 4:25:47 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: reg45

Yes.


40 posted on 07/05/2014 4:31:15 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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