29 Nov: ChicagoArchitecture: Opposition Growing Against Obama Museum Eating Jackson Park
Written By Editor
Just a day after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the feds are going to examine the placement of the Barack Obama Presidential Center on a prime chunk of public park, neighbors are getting organized to save their green space.
“Save the Midway” has been formed to protect the city’s beloved Midway Plaisance from a parking garage and charter bus staging area that the Obama Foundation wants to build at the head of the historic strip of vegetative oasis...
The group has put out an open letter to the Foundation, voicing its concerns. Overtly, it seems to think it has a leg to stand on because the Plaisance is on the National Register of Historic Places. The undercurrent in the letter seems to be that they don’t want the Obama museum sucking up part of Jackson Park, either, but know there’s not much they can do about that.
Just as everyone assumed this project was a foregone conclusion, things are starting to look interesting. Read the open letter from Save the Midway below....
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2017/11/29/opposition-growing-against-obama-museum-eating-jackson-park/
29 Nov: HydeParkHerald, Chicago: EDITORIAL Sh! Sh! Don’t tell Trump
Please, please do not inform the President of the United States that some of the agencies under his administration have something to say about the location of the Obama Presidential Center.
It turns out that under the National Environmental Policy act and the National Historic Preservation Act both the Federal Highway Administration and the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation have something to say about the changes contemplated in historic Jackson Park to accommodate the center...
There have been, for several years, many comments by the talking (and writing) heads of political wisdom in our country about the “Politics of Vengeance” being seemingly practiced by the present residence of the White House against its most recent past resident.
He (Trump) has by presidential order reversed environmental rules and other regulations on businesses, approved the Keystone pipeline project and walked away from the Asian trade agreement and the Paris climate agreement...
http://hpherald.com/2017/11/29/editorial-sh-sh-dont-tell-trump/
>>seemingly practiced by the present residence of the White House
residence????? not residents
That certainly makes me take the article seriously.
I don’t see Trump getting involved at all in anything to do with the library. No win to be gotten from anything to make it worth the trouble.