Obama non-library ‘presidential center’ in Chicago devolving into a fiasco

American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
1/10/2018

Excerpts:

The first community organizer to become president has managed to anger community groups so much with his planned personal monument, aka a “presidential center,” that part of the plan was just scrapped.

Lolly Bowean of the Chicago Tribune reports:

Bowing to community pressure, the Obama Foundation has scrapped its plan for an above-ground parking garage and will instead build an underground facility below the presidential center in Jackson Park, officials said late Monday.

The original plan would have grabbed a treasured part of Chicago’s park system, the Midway (site of Chicago’s World’s Fair), for a two-story garage.  The group Save the Midway sprang up to protect the historic public park land from a private developer (the Obama Foundation) appropriating the land for a private purpose (the Obama Center will not be part of the National Archives System):

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As for that “suitably modern” design, it appears to my eyes to be designed in the tradition known as “brutalism” for its use of raw concrete and blank facades:

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3 Responses to Obama non-library ‘presidential center’ in Chicago devolving into a fiasco

  1. Bruce says:

    Obama’s Parkland Grab for Vanity Presidential Library

    Canada Free Press
    by Judi McLeod
    1/10/2018

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/obamas-parkland-grab-for-vanity-presidential-library

  2. Bruce says:

    Plans revised for ‘Obama Presidential Center’: Taller, uglier, and a little bit less white

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    by Thomas Lifson
    1/11/2018

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/plans_revised_for_obama_presidential_center_in_chicago_taller_uglier_and_a_little_bit_less_white.html

  3. Bruce says:

    The battle to shut down Obama’s presidential center

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    by by Anna Giaritelli
    1/15/2018

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-battle-to-shut-down-obamas-presidential-center/article/2645882

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