Posted on 05/15/2018 10:41:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
Activists filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block construction of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s historic public parklands.
Protect Our Parks Inc. accused organizers of an “institutional bait and switch” by initially advertising the center as the 44th president’s official library.
“In August 2016, the City and the Park District publically announced that the Obama Presidential Library, promised to include all of the former President’s official records, would be built in Jackson Park,” the lawsuit reads. “Then, in May 2017, after the Defendants’ public announcement that a true ‘Presidential Library’ would be built, the Obamas did an about face on their commitment to a Presidential Library.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, also claims the transfer of public parklands to a private entity violates Park District Code.
“Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way, known as a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab, one that will endure for centuries to come, regardless of future changing public park needs and increasingly consequential environmental conditions,” the lawsuit reads.
Plaintiffs in the case are three Chicago residents, including the activist Charlotte Adelman. Defendants are the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago.
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That’s right.
Chicago home of the CPUSA.
Don’t tell me that there is no land in Chicago to be purchased for Hussein’s palace. Get Rahm and Madigan to work on it.
It is funny to see the parks crowd go after these bums.
It sure is, and I’m not asking anyone to help him raise fund to buy land.
IMO, it’s a disgrace to even contemplate heralding that man’s actions against our nation.
What a hoot watching a Left on Left meltdown.
I hope they get destructive about it. Rip up the area folks, this is impotent.
Right, Obama was claiming that the facility would be a tourist attraction which would entice businesses to the area. Then, someone looked at a map and "discovered" that the University of Chicago and a major museum are located across from the proposed site so there is no place for a business to be established. That's when the local liberals started talking about relocating the facility.
Did they ever do anything with that airport after they destroyed it?
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