It’s Not a Beautiful Building
How lucky to live in Chicago, especially since Barack Obama just announced to the residents of the windy City that they will lose their beloved historic Jackson Park. The Park, included on the National Register of Historic Places, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 19th century.
Recently the 44th President posted on X:
Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much.
The 19 acres of what used to be treasured green space in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park for Mr. Obama to erect his self-tribute. The sprawling campus will not be a presidential library managed by the National Archives, but instead a sort of museum operated by the private Obama Foundation.
Whatever will be given to the public, write James Freeman in the WSJ, it will not include the ability to conduct thorough research on the Obama administration.
The sprawling campus will not be a presidential library managed by the National Archives, but instead a sort of museum operated by the private Obama Foundation.
According to Freeman, it takes a special kind of nerve to bulldoze local opposition, pave over what used to be historic parkland, construct a monument to yourself and then describe it as a gift to your neighbors. No longer are liberals obsessed with preserving wetlands in their pristine natural state.
The center’s first completed building, a 60,000-square-foot facility called Home Court:
According to Nosa Ehimwenman, president and CEO of BOWA Construction, which built Home Court:
Building on the low-lying, lakefront site was challenging,
“You can imagine how much water that you have to manage [during construction],” he said. “I mean, we pumped out over 1.5 million gallons of water during excavation.”
