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City promised upgrades near Obama library
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 3, 2015 | By Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 06/03/2015 10:02:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

If the Barack Obama Presidential Center is built in Washington Park, the city envisions a walking community, where visitors would step off a CTA Green Line train and stroll along decoratively landscaped sidewalks, lined with pedestrian scale lighting and seating areas.

In Jackson Park, visitors might spend an afternoon biking from the lakefront to a well-lit, paved trail through the Midway Plaisance to the Obama center.

The library project comes as the city faces a projected $1 billion budget shortfall next year and agencies such as the CTA are dealing with reduced aid from the state. Efforts to squeeze funding from the state would meet strong resistance in the General Assembly, which is dealing with the budget crisis.

Regardless of where the Obama center goes, the mayor's office has promised to beautify the area and enhanced transit.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; marxist; obama; socialist

1 posted on 06/03/2015 10:02:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me be the first to tell him, “You didn’t build that anyway.”


2 posted on 06/03/2015 10:07:58 AM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well I’ve lived in Chicago. No way am I taking the L train down to that neighborhood to visit the 0bama library.


3 posted on 06/03/2015 10:08:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There won’t be much strolling through those grounds. No, it will be running at break-neck speed away from the rapists, robbers, and murderers that haunt Black ghettos everywhere. The ghetto surrounds this proposed fairyland as far as the eye can see, and no white person should consider it a stop on a Windy City tour.


4 posted on 06/03/2015 10:11:16 AM PDT by jobim
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... step off a CTA Green Line train and stroll along decoratively landscaped sidewalks, ...

Looks like they left out "dodging bullets as they admire the surrounding area..." </s

5 posted on 06/03/2015 10:11:47 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Really dangerous area of Chicago. Perfect for Obama’s Homies to loiter.
6 posted on 06/03/2015 10:11:54 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, hey, in order to make the whole thing genuine Chicago, there really does need to be some graft and corruption and cronyism and kickbacks involving the building of this.


7 posted on 06/03/2015 10:13:00 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I hope that if a Republican (Cruz/Walker) win the election in 2016, one of the first things they do is destroy the "Obama Myth."

He need to be investigated and destroyed. Piece by piece. Let's look at his transcripts, his SATs, etc. How was he admitted to Harvard? Who paid for his education? He needs to be publically destroyed and humiliated so that even the most hardcore leftist will not admit to having voted for him.

8 posted on 06/03/2015 10:14:11 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If the Barack Obama Presidential Center is built in Washington Park, the city envisions a walking community, where visitors would step off a CTA Green Line train and stroll along decoratively landscaped sidewalks, lined with pedestrian scale lighting and seating areas.

It's brilliant because the documents that reside there are going to get about as much exposure as the documents on Hillary's e-mail server.


9 posted on 06/03/2015 10:14:39 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put Barry Soetoro’s (AKA Barack Dunham’s) “Presidential” LIEbrary where it belongs...in the GHETTO.


10 posted on 06/03/2015 10:20:31 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So are we going to finally be able to see his school transcripts and term papers and passport and other related items? I’ll be disappointed big time if we are still not able to do so (sarc).


11 posted on 06/03/2015 10:35:11 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can you spell, “Potempkin Willage”, comrade?


12 posted on 06/03/2015 10:35:56 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every elementary school student for the next 200 years will be forced to visit the Obama shrine.


13 posted on 06/03/2015 10:48:08 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: ken in texas

Hopefully many Obama supporters will visit.


14 posted on 06/03/2015 11:28:01 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jobim
"There won’t be much strolling through those grounds."

Don't be so down on it. Look at the jobs and wealth it will create. Obie's homies can run their prostitute rings through the Men's and Women's bathrooms, and the drug dealers can hook up with buyers at the library. Maybe even sell illegal weapons every now and then.

15 posted on 06/03/2015 11:56:14 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Sorry. Going after former presidents is simply not done. This guy will be a PITA for decades to come.


16 posted on 06/03/2015 12:07:09 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Chuckster

Too late. We’ve had “Bush’s Fault” for 6-7 years. Your buddy Obama needs to get hammered.


17 posted on 06/03/2015 3:11:57 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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