Posted on 02/19/2020 2:07:34 PM PST by Libloather
CHICAGO - As dozens of famous NBA basketball players arrive in Chicago for All-Star Weekend, former President Barack Obama will be joining them, officials with the Obama Foundation announced.
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Obama’s event comes just days after protesters staged a sit-in at City Hall demanding a meeting with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to discuss ways to protect lower-income residents who live near the site of the Obama Presidential Center from displacement.
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Before targeting the mayor with their demands, activists with the CBA Coalition appealed to Obama for an iron-clad legal contract that would guarantee such things as property tax breaks, a rental assistance fund and librarians at nearby public schools. But Obama said because his project isn’t a profit-making venture, a CBA isn’t the right tool for it.
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The Obama Foundation, among other things, is charged with developing the presidential center campus in Jackson Park. The sprawling complex will have a museum, meeting spaces for large public events, a public library branch and offices for the foundation staff. The site will be surrounded with greenery and outdoor meeting spaces. It will also have an athletic center with basketball courts. The project has gained approval from the City Council, but has faced opposition from environmentalists who continue to push for it to be moved elsewhere.
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Transparency Inc strikes again. My guess - the nearest bath house - the more, the merrier.
What do Barack Obama and NBA stars have in common?
They both move as far away from ‘their’ people as possible as soon as the checks clear.
Barry wants to pave over the White City.
And he’ll buy off the NBA to do it.
“It will also have an athletic center with basketball courts.”
Prediction: There will be a gang shooting within one year of opening.
Some Kenyan homosexual.
obamas liebrary would be empty of all papers from his days at the White House. Empty like obama.
The locals don’t want the Kenyanesian Usurpation Monument/Mosque.
“It will also have an athletic center with basketball courts.”
How about a shooting range? Seems it would get more usage.
Obama isn't even claiming that it will be a Presidential Library housing his papers. His papers, if he even has hard copies with his signature, are under quarantine and housed somewhere else. They probably won't be available for study, hidden from the public just like most everything from his life before he bacame pres*dent.
The NBA but not the curling team. That’s racist.
Just saw an BLoomberg ad on YOUTUBE...that was lying like a big dog!!! I mean out and out lying...!!!
How about some reaction by people who live there
In Chicago all basketball courts are default shooting ranges. Every weekend.
Soetoro and Fat Boy have vowed to make Chiraq the epicenter of the Resistance Movement. It currently is the epicenter of a pandemic of Hopium Withdrawal and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Mosesdapoet, that’s a good idea. The people, in that neighborhood probably care more about it, compared to the basketball players.
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