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Obama Is Said to Have Picked Presidential Library Site in Chicago
New York Times ^ | July 27, 2016 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Posted on 07/27/2016 3:11:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Obama and the foundation helping to plot his path after the White House have selected Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago as the site of his presidential library, ending a debate within his inner circle about the location, a person familiar with the decision said Wednesday.

Mr. Obama and his presidential foundation have been deliberating for months over whether to place the library in Jackson Park, which is on a broad expanse of Lake Michigan and borders the Woodlawn neighborhood, or in the Washington Park neighborhood, which is closer to the Obamas’ home in Chicago. …

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Local News
KEYWORDS: chicago; illinois; obama; presidentiallibrary; rahm
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To: Liz

And it shall forever be called “Ground Zero” ........


41 posted on 07/27/2016 4:20:11 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Olog-hai

OH MY GOSH...Chicago is going to get a Mosque....The Barry Soetoro Memorial for Muslim Brotherhood....


42 posted on 07/27/2016 4:22:40 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Liz

The sewer?


43 posted on 07/27/2016 4:46:07 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Runs through it......


44 posted on 07/27/2016 4:46:52 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Olog-hai

It will end up as the BLM Retirement Home


45 posted on 07/27/2016 5:22:36 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: al baby
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46 posted on 07/27/2016 5:30:30 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (islam is the worship of Satan)
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To: Olog-hai

The Chicago River?


47 posted on 07/27/2016 5:32:47 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Olog-hai
President Obama and the foundation helping to plot his path after the White House have selected Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago as the site of his presidential library, ending a debate within his inner circle about the location, a person familiar with the decision said Wednesday.

Without the parkland to "Let's Move" in, a lot of kids are going to get fat.

FWIW: The park is the site of the 1893 World's Fair, the famous White City.

48 posted on 07/27/2016 5:36:01 PM PDT by x
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To: Liz

Gee!
Which side of the gun-free zone called Chicago will it be on?
Or will he have the federal government make sacred the hotel Al Capone resided in, and make THAT his library?


49 posted on 07/27/2016 5:43:41 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Olog-hai

With any luck it will be torched by black rioters during one of their periodic uprisings.


50 posted on 07/27/2016 6:36:18 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: al baby

What will he put in it? Are you kidding?

Dreams from my Father
The Communist Manifesto
The Holy Quran and the Hadiths
Das Kapital
Biographies of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Muhammad
Etc.


51 posted on 07/27/2016 7:40:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Olog-hai; Liz; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Read Liz’s investigative sleuthing within.

PING!


52 posted on 07/27/2016 7:44:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: al baby

Silly

the goodies are numerous...

for one there’s his own family road map showing all 57 states

or is 58 ???

I always leave out East Virginia...the one he hasn’t visited yet..


53 posted on 07/27/2016 8:16:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Olog-hai

No no no. The Obama Lie -bury should be in the Austin or Englewood neighborhoods. The residents there would organize their communities
to take care of it.


54 posted on 07/28/2016 12:05:08 AM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Squantos

Cute....fits to a tee.


55 posted on 07/28/2016 2:46:07 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Liz

Why slight Kenya?


56 posted on 07/28/2016 7:09:10 AM PDT by Bigg Red (You're on fire, stupid!)
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To: Olog-hai

haha. That’s good place for him to put ANYTHING with his soiled name on it.


57 posted on 07/28/2016 8:16:04 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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