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Posted on 09/19/2025 6:23:40 AM PDT by PBRCat
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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It looks like it came from hell!
The bookmobile to nowhere?
They could recoup some of the money by putting in a solar panel field. And maybe a few windmills on the lake, close to the property.
Will it have his birth certificate?
It looks like a modified Borg cube, as Mel Brooks said “it’s good to be the King”
Then I’d say it’s fitting
That’s a ton of graft for a washed- up political hack.
“Site construction began in August and a formal groundbreaking ceremony was held on September 28, 2021.”
The foundation should have considered buying comparatively cheap vacant space in the Loop.
As long as the money goes to black-owned contractors hiring illegals, it’s all good.
BRUTALISM ARCHITECTURE.....SO APPROPRIATE FOR OBAMA!
It’s outer fugliness matches his inner fugliness. He is a lying little sorry-assed leftist who’s never had an idea of any kind, let alone an original one. I’ve thankfully had many associations with blacks who are creative, intelligent, and honest. Dorkbama, the Muslin eunuch quota baby is not included in that Venn Diagram.
With the wall, it reminds me of OBL’s compound.
Soviet Brutalism. A fitting architecture for a commie pig.
“Will it have his birth certificate?”
I’m pretty sure there are people alive that remember the white grandmother with the black kid. It would have generated some talk at the time.
Fake library for a fake president, a fake Christian, and a fake American.
Obama was the biggest mistake of this century That is not a library It will be his tomb upon death. It was never intended to be a library
It reminds me of that stone in Saudi Arabia that Muslims go to...
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