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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Managed by the private Obama Foundation
All the world leaders he bowed to and kissed their ass?.
if we have a plane capable of carrying the weight, maybe we could pick it up and drop it on Teheran where it belongs?
Do they issue a bulletproof vest with each admission?
Razed.
I want to see the elevator system that carries the ammo up to the flak cannons.
A REPLICA IN KENYA, ALSO???
WITH THE PHONIEST BIRTH CERTIFICATE EVER
This might get zotted, but I would be willing to visit...if I could take a giant shit there.
My AI software suggested “razed,” but I instinctively resisted. I’ll check with my wife next time. She is always right.
I hear you.
I thought it was a secret wyteppl crematory.
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