Barack Obama’s Fake ‘Library’ Balloons to Massive $700 Million Construction Costs

Chicago Contrarian ^ | September 18, 2025 | Warner Todd Huston

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The Obama library — which isn't a library — has ballooned to a construction cost of more than $615 million, up from the original estimate of $300 million when the edifice was proposed in 2019.

As 2024, the estimate had soared to $615 million, with the cost adding up to a whopping $615,674,047.

But according to the Chicago Tribune, other estimates have already placed construction costs past the $700 million mark.

Along with these massive cost overruns, the Barack Obama Presidential Center has had a very troubled history already, and it hasn’t even been completed yet.

Originally, the Obama Center was sold to City Hall and the Illinois General Assembly as a "privately funded" enterprise that would require no tax dollars. Nevertheless, that has since turned out not to be entirely true. After ground breaking and construction began, it became clear that the city and state would indeed be on the hook for the cost of rerouting streets and reconfiguring local mass transit lines to support the center. The cost is expected to come to at least $200 million in tax dollars to achieve all that, according to the Washington Examiner.

Other lies over costs associated with the Obama Center were sold to Chicago residents, as well. The first was the whopper the center would not cause harm to the federally protected Jackson Park in which it is being built. And many supporters of the park quickly launched a series of lawsuits against Barack Obama to stop the desecration of more than 20 acres of the park. Nonetheless, Obama’s people continued to claim there’d be no real harm done to the decades-old park.

The actual design of the building is also spurring disgust over how ugly it is. Many are blasting the design as a "monstrosity" and an eyesore.

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East German archetecture from 1970.

Soviet type building.