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Obama library to be located in Chicago, reports say
The Hill ^ | April 30, 2015 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 04/30/2015 5:45:16 PM PDT by jazusamo

The Obama presidential library will be located in Chicago, according to media reports.

The University of Chicago reportedly beat out three other finalists that submitted bids to build the library — the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University in New York and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu — according to NBC News.

An official announcement is expected in mid-May, CBS 2 Chicago reported.

The foundation overseeing the creation of the library did not respond to a request for comment.

The Windy City, where the president and first lady lived and worked before Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004, was long considered the front-runner to land the library.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, has lobbied hard for the library to be located in his city.

The president has deep ties to the University of Chicago. He taught at the university's law school for 12 years. His former senior adviser, David Axelrod, runs the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and attended college there.

The site selection had been delayed over concerns that the University of Chicago's bid proposed two sites that required the acquisition of public park land. The announcement was further pushed back in March due to Chicago's runoff mayoral election, which Emanuel won.

The Illinois state legislature last week passed a bill that would allow the library to legally be built on park land.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; obama; obamalibrary
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To: OldSmaj

I hear ya.


21 posted on 04/30/2015 6:02:53 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

Illinois is broke, so who’s going to pay for it?


22 posted on 04/30/2015 6:06:51 PM PDT by abishai
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To: jazusamo

1. Koran. 2. Commie manifesto. 3. Koran. 4. Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals. 5. Koran. 6. Malcolm X. 7. Koran. 8. Protocols of Elders of Zion (sic). 9. Koran. 10. Mein Kamph. Can all be fit in one carry bag. Let’s buy him a one way ticket home to Kenya and he can take his library with him.


23 posted on 04/30/2015 6:06:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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To: jazusamo

On the south side hopefully so it will be first in line for the next riot and looting. Way to go feckless one, you finally did one thing half a@@ right.


24 posted on 04/30/2015 6:19:09 PM PDT by Fungi (Job 26:7 : He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.)
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To: jazusamo

Can we assume that everything about his administration will be sealed for two hundred years?


25 posted on 04/30/2015 6:19:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Some times you need more than six shots. Much more.)
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To: Rome2000
Confidential to BTLD...

Duplicate (even triplicate) threads don't really bother me.

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26 posted on 04/30/2015 6:19:51 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: jazusamo

Planning to have a branch in Tehran, no doubt.


27 posted on 04/30/2015 6:20:42 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: jazusamo

You can bet it wont be built on the dangerous south or west side.


28 posted on 04/30/2015 6:21:15 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: jazusamo

It will be a Once in a Life Time Pilgrimage for Democrats ,LOL


29 posted on 04/30/2015 6:21:35 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: BulletBobCo

She’s not guilty.


30 posted on 04/30/2015 6:22:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Zeppo

Yep, his pal Val’s relatives in Tehran will frequent it.


31 posted on 04/30/2015 6:27:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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32 posted on 04/30/2015 6:29:14 PM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent. One more reason to never go there.


33 posted on 04/30/2015 6:32:02 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: jazusamo

Why are they building a whole library just to house 2 books?

Kind of like building a repository for Hillary Clinton’s records as Secretary of State.


34 posted on 04/30/2015 6:36:20 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: molson209
It will be a Once in a Life Time Pilgrimage for Democrats ,LOL

It will be their Mecca.

They can make their Hajj to stand in awe at the temple of their prophet, the Obamatollah.


35 posted on 04/30/2015 6:38:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: jazusamo
Obama library to be located in Chicago, reports say

Next to the County Jail?
I'd contribute to that!

36 posted on 04/30/2015 6:41:27 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: jazusamo

Joliet prison?


37 posted on 04/30/2015 6:48:23 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: jazusamo

Maybe he could locate it in Cabrini Green (and maybe it has the same end)


38 posted on 04/30/2015 6:52:50 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: jazusamo

No more money laundering Presidential Libraries, period. It is not a right. There should be only one which all former Presidents share. No more tax money for corrupt institutions. IMHO!!!


39 posted on 04/30/2015 6:54:49 PM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: OldSmaj

Come on now, it does matter. Someday the rat-bastard might need the money.

I will be the first to go into the library and read the book./SSSS = heavy sarcasm!

PS. we are on the same page.


40 posted on 04/30/2015 7:37:15 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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