Posted on 11/24/2018 11:27:23 AM PST by ETL
CHICAGO (AP) The city of Chicago made its first full-throated response this week to a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center, saying the buildings would sit on land that wasn't subject to restrictive public-trust laws.
City attorneys made those and other legal arguments in a federal court motion to dismiss a May lawsuit filed by an environmental group opposed to the project in Chicago's historic Jackson Park, chosen as the site for the $500 million presidential museum and library by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
The filing asking Judge John Robert Blakey to toss the suit highlights City Council and state legislative approval for the complex it said will foster economic development on the city's South Side, upgrade the parkland and tell "the story of our Nation's first African-American President." It's slated to open in 2021.
Protect Our Parks contends in its complaint that the land was once under Lake Michigan water, putting it in the public trust under court precedent and extending additional protections. The city's filing argues that's historically inaccurate and that while nearby areas were submerged, the Obama Presidential Center site was not.
The center has widespread backing in Chicago, where Obama began his political career. But lakefront projects over the decades have always prompted fierce resistance in some quarters. A similar suit helped scuttle "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' plans for a Chicago museum in 2016.
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He’s a Halfrican American. Why are they ignoring “white side”?
You’re right. There are no words to describe him. I guess “Obama” could be used for bad things.
“Boy, that Obama is a real piece of Obama”.
“That Obama called Maxine Waters is a real POO”.
etc, etc, etc
Is there going to be a section on counterfeiting made easy or a Kenyan section?
For sure. He belongs in an Obama-hole country.
From Feb, 2015...
The Chicago prize selects proposals for Obama’s presidential library
How Chicago lost the George Lucas museum: A cautionary tale
At this point, building the Death Star seems like it would be easier than the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts
Emanuel offered to accommodate Lucas by offering him prime real estatelakefront property.
Chicago first proposed land on Lake Michigan that is currently a parking lot just south of Soldier Field, where the Bears play their home games, and within walking distance of three other museums. The Chicago Park District promised to lease the property to the museum for $1 a year, and Lucas would have personally financed the project for over $740 million. The museum would be a 300,000-square-foot building on 17 acres of lakefront property.
The “Jackson” that park is named after is Andrew Jackson, as in the Trail of Tears, Battle of New Orleans, etc. Not Action Jackson. I wonder if anybody on the Obama team is aware of that.
$500 Million gift to unions?
Already existing things and places are more suitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Barack_Obama#Schools
they missed P.S. #34 in Jersey City NJ. Truly an inspiration ?
Hey, at least it has a minaret.
I’m sure the federal court has an empty spare restroom.
They should build it right next to the largest sewage processing plant they have. It going to be full of it so it may as well smell like it too.
It actually looks like a temple.
Plant a few arrowheads on the property and claim it’s Native American ancestral burial grounds.
Then start shooting barbs at Obama that he’s a racist.
Indians have higher standing on the leftist PC hierarchy than blacks. As Alinsky said, use the establish rules against the establishment.
It does take an entire building
to house a Koran.....
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