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The federal government has invited comments on “adverse effects” the Obama Presidential Center may have on Jackson Park and a leading landscape advocacy group has big ones: the planned iconic high-rise tower... and not taking into account the historic Frederick Law Olmsted designs for the related Midway Plaisance and Washington Park. Olmsted’s design “was intended to lead visitors on a choreographed journey through passages of landscape scenery. Neither the location nor the disposition of the roads were accidental,” wrote Charles Birnbaum, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation in a submission for the federal review. These South...

Full title.....................Obama Says He ‘Did Not Transform’ Chicago ‘In Any Significant Way’ — ‘ I Am The First To Acknowledge’ [VIDEO]....................“I am the first to acknowledge that I did not set the world on fire, nor did I transform these communities in any significant way, although we did some good things,” he stated. “It did change me,” Obama continued. “This community gave me a lot more than I was able to give in return, because this community taught me that ordinary people, when working together, can do extraordinary things.”

Speaker Boehner and the Republican House are frustrated that they can't get President Obama or Senate leader Reid to compromise with them.-SNIP- Chicago's Mayor Daley I gained absolute power by gaining absolute control over the budget. Congress's authority to write a budget is determined not by a Home Rule Commission, but by the Constitution. But President Obama was able to cleverly subvert Congress's power of the purse this way: the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has not passed a budget in four years. -SNIP-In effect, Obama cleverly usurped congressional budget authority, with the added benefit of eliminating a budgetary paper trail....

We will not rest, we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people in the Gulf, a relentless response from day one....If you need me, I'll be on the basketball court