Posted on 09/13/2022 4:09:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Even before he left office in January 2017, President Barack Obama had laid grand plans to build a presidential library on the South Side of Chicago. As early as 2015, the Chicago City Council (and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff from 2009 to 2010) announced that “the City defers to the sound judgment of the President and his Foundation as to the ultimate location of the Presidential Library.” Obama ultimately decided to build on 19.3 choice acres in historic Jackson Park, designed in 1871 by great American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. By that time, Obama’s “library” designation had been ditched because federal law imposes strict limitations on the size of presidential libraries. Freed of those restrictionss, the Obama Foundation unveiled a new plan with a 235-foot tower, joined by three other buildings. The Foundation claims that its new complex, the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), will generate huge economic returns to the city. But don’t bet on it. The Jackson Park site is landlocked, and the nearby land is fully occupied. If the larger Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry didn’t transform the South Side, neither will the OPC.
Without economic growth, the planned site is destined to cause maximum disruption, expense, and degradation to Jackson Park and its immediate environs. The project will require cutting down perhaps up to 1,000 old-growth trees; Cornell Drive, a six-lane north/south artery, will become a bike path. To expand the already-overtaxed DuSable Lake Shore Drive (U.S. 41) to the east and Stony Island Avenue to the west to offset, but not neutralize, the looming traffic crunch will require major roadwork, costing $172 million in 2018 dollars. A high water table guarantees that dewatering the Center’s deep foundations will be a constant source of trouble...
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Hussein has how many beachfront mansions? The Kenyan and Mike can sell a few and pitch in. Maybe Groot can pass the plate around.
The guy shows up like a plague of locusts.
This is the guy who said in his own book that he chose to be a radical so he wouldn’t be seen as a sellout.
“Pull the other one.” Is a quote that comes to mind.
Let’s have the FBI raid the warehouse in Hoffman Estates to vet the 33 million documents that Soetoro carted off from the White Crib. He was supposed to have kept them long enough to digitize, then return them....which didn’t happen. Is this a NARA and PRA violation? I think so....
Designed to destroy Jackson Park, the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, America’s Nineteenth century “coming out party.”
Build a sewage treatment plant there. It would be a proper memorial.
Bathhouse Barry, a notorious on-the-down-low bottom, should sell bareback rides at Man’s Country, something he used to do for free. And Big Mike can run a peep show at $50 a pop to see his junk.
Let it ROT
Not one dime more
I lived in Chicago for many years, but never went to Jackson Park, as i was told it was in a bad neighborhood. I never appreciated the historic setting because of its proximity to the south side ghetto.
Richard Epstein probably can kiss any hopes he had a being invited to the grand opening goodbye!
Obscene.
Well there's a theme in keeping with 0 and his reign of fecal disturbance.
Why do these ex-presidents even need this BS ?
Aka, The Presidential Liebrary for Retards/
Oh Barry, how could you!
The ego of this “community organizer” knows no limits.
I had family on Chicago’s south side before it went ghetto.
Jackson Park was super nice.
By the mid 70’s, wouldn’t go near it.
No worries! The US Taxpayer is LOADED!! Just cut Barry a cool billion. Add an additional 40 more billion for the Z-Man in Ukraine!
They’ll just make it a presidential library again and the fed will fund it forever. They can claim an oopsie after they are caught.
It would be a great reception center for those buses full of illegals sent from Texas.
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