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Chicago No Longer Seems a Lock to Host Obama’s Library, and Many Are Alarmed
NY Times ^ | 1/17/15 | JULIE BOSMANJAN

Posted on 01/18/2015 4:37:14 AM PST by Libloather

CHICAGO — People who live in Chicago know a few things to be true about their city. Winters are brutal. The architecture is first-rate. The Cubs will lose.

In the last few years, they have confidently added another: The Barack Obama Presidential Library will be built here, Mr. Obama’s adopted hometown.

But as the Obamas and their foundation near a decision on the location of the library — after narrowing the options down to Hawaii, Chicago and New York City — someone in their camp recently let it slip that they are not so pleased with Chicago’s bids.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; hawaii; library; obama
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To: Libloather

They can’t get any bids in Chicago? How much does it cost to purchase a boarded-up liquor store and convert it to Obama’s Library and Welfare Office?


41 posted on 01/18/2015 8:19:09 AM PST by twoputt
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To: Joe Boucher

In his cell...


42 posted on 01/18/2015 8:21:01 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Libloather

It won’t be Hawaii. Obama will put it where it best fluffs his ego. He will chose NYC where he can have millions of kids forced to do their pilgrimage and pay homage to his glory.


43 posted on 01/18/2015 8:22:10 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Libloather
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44 posted on 01/18/2015 8:26:03 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Libloather

The guy’s a transient, so, what do they expect? He doesn’t really have a home.


45 posted on 01/18/2015 8:29:34 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: b4its2late

Yeah, it will be Hawaii. Chicago was just a useful stopover.


46 posted on 01/18/2015 8:40:04 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Libloather

During the entire time Obama has been on office it doesn’t seem he has gone back to Chicago vey much, in fact very little.
He has that home there but they never seem to use it or visit anyone there.
So I doubt Chicago is very much in the running for the library.
Hawaii is much more the place where it will be and where he will be, which is just fine with me.


47 posted on 01/18/2015 8:45:35 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Timber Rattler

Maybe they could riot to show their support for the library.


48 posted on 01/18/2015 8:45:38 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: Libloather

For the location to have a statement relative to his political career, it should be built in the Balkans.


49 posted on 01/18/2015 8:51:52 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: Libloather
Come on, you guys have no imagination. As long as it's on a golf course it doesn't matter which course. Do they have a golf course in Kenya? Ah yes they do. Then I suggest we buy a copy of Obama’s book for the clubhouse of the Royal Nairobi Gold Club and put up a sign.

It's either that or the lost city of Atlantis.

50 posted on 01/18/2015 9:01:17 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Mercat

I said Ike’s library was in Abilene and it still is. The reference to the song was merely cutesee.


51 posted on 01/18/2015 12:01:37 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Libloather

I say it should be in the Blue Oyster bar of Police Academy fame.


52 posted on 01/18/2015 1:51:00 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Nobody lives on Bikini Island after the nuke tests.


53 posted on 01/19/2015 7:29:34 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Well, it’s the baddest part of town.


54 posted on 01/19/2015 7:37:12 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Vaduz

I know... I was making a joke...


55 posted on 01/19/2015 9:11:58 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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