Posted on 11/01/2025 4:20:34 AM PDT by Libloather
The Obama Foundation is giving the public a virtual preview of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, a 19-acre, community-rooted campus slated to open on Chicago’s South Side in spring 2026.
Located in the Jackson Park neighborhood, the space will feature a wide range of facilities and green space, including a fruit and vegetable garden, a podcast studio, a Chicago Public Library branch, and an open field — called the Great Lawn — for outdoor movies and sledding.
A new kind of presidential library
Unlike other presidential libraries, the Obama Presidential Center will be managed by the private Obama Foundation — not the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The NARA will, however, house and loan the former president’s fully digitized records to the center for exhibits.
In a virtual information session in early October, Obama Foundation leaders shared visual renderings and mockups detailing what to expect at the center, which broke ground in 2021.
Many of the center’s facilities will be named after prominent individuals who foundation leaders say helped shape the former president’s and first lady’s lives. They include the John Lewis Plaza — a public space that will host outdoor performances, markets, and fairs — and the Hadiya Pendleton Atrium, which honors the Chicago teen killed by gun violence in 2013 shortly after performing with her majorette squad at President Obama’s second inauguration.
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Even the locals didn’t want it.
Obama’s Latest Lie: If You Like Your Century-Old Trees You Can Keep Them
https://lidblog.com/obama-center-trees/
An anti-American monstrosity and a stain on the country.
And no doubt a donation kiosk outside for donations, heard they are having money problems.
The first POTUS to have been born in the ‘60s. Whoopee-doo.
Feel better now?
The children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtfizIbBDI
At a public school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO3NBqT3LBc
Hollywood
(The Chanting) We Are The Ones song by will.i.am - Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU
Yes We Can Obama Song by will.i.am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk
American Prayer - Dave Stewart (Barack Obama Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q
More kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxFzH13oOU
I think that a fruit garden is very appropriate!
Obama succeeded in defacing the landmark Jackson Park which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. It is one of the most historically significant parks in the USA. Obama’s brutalist Presidential Center has scarred the property and angered area residents.
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
The Barack Obama Library & Flak Tower.
That building looks like a limestone quarry kiln. Curious…
I’ll predict that this facility will fall into deep disrepair within 10 years, and be raised.
It looks like a mammoth tombstone. I suppose it is a reflection on his presidency.
It has already been raised. I would experience some satisfaction were I to see it razed.
All the warmth and charm of 1950’s East Berlin architecture.
Hopefully, obama will be held accountable for his many serious crimes against this country. I believe a sentence served IN that monstrosity would likely be appropriate. There has to be at least one windowless closet there to serve that purpose.
I wonder if his library will have his original birth certificate the one that shows he was born in Indonesia.
Sales of Hennessey and blunts in the gift shop should drive up attendance a little.
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