Obama Is Said to Have Picked Presidential Library Site in Chicago

New York Times ^ | July 27, 2016 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis

[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. …

[Liz]

ping

[ModelBreaker]

Will he put a bulletproof wall up around the library to keep the Chicago thugs out?

[edhawk]

Hopefully they can put a big running tote-board out front that shows the number of black on black killings in Chicago since his election and update it dynamically as reported from the coroner’s office.

[yuleeyahoo]

The BHO Presidential Library

[Mouton]

Cabrini green would be better.

[faithhopecharity]

send it and its namesake back to Kenya

[MinuteGal]

He's picked the unsafest location in the unsafest major city in the Union to keep his monument and library safer and more visited than anywhere else across the fruited plain.

(I hope you follow what I said...heheh)

Leni

[Hot Tabasco]

An Obama library in Chicago is the equivalent of a ski resort in Florida.........

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Somewhere in southwest Chicago, I hope. I can see the headlines now: “Drive by shooting at the Obama (shooting) gallery!”

[Road Warrior ‘04]

See Post #29.

[PROCON]

Will the library building have minarets?

[Don Corleone]

Ironic, a semi-illiterate building a library.

The Chicago school system has made it so that no one can read anyway. Obama's library will be on safe ground.

[Scrambler Bob]

In breaking news - - -

Obama Picks His Nose

[yuleeyahoo]

[doorgunner69]

Well, there goes the neighborhood...

Not to worry, this IS ChiCongo, after all. Now Detroit, that would be a shame............

[castlegreyskull]

I wonder if it will have glory holes and a bathhouse section?

[gigster]

I'm from Detroit, so I know what you be talkin' about.

[NYRepublican72]

Taking parks away from the ghetto. Shame on Obama. Once again, making the poor worse off.

[Political Junkie Too]

All of his papers are sealed. What will be put in it, a recreation of the Baskin-Robbins he worked at as a teen?

-PJ

[Forty-Niner]

Of course he picked Chicago, it’s the home of the Communist Party of the United States, and stomping grounds of Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, etc. Obama wanted to be close to his “Homies.”