Posted on 04/14/2021 5:08:58 PM PDT by Libloather
A staunch foe of the Obama Presidential Center’s expected arrival in storied Jackson Park is once again suing to block its construction, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that argues federal authorities should have relocated the official campus in order to protect the surrounding environment.
The complaint from the nonprofit Protect Our Parks and other plaintiffs names the city of Chicago, the Obama Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as defendants. It was filed the same day that preliminary construction for the Obama Presidential Center at Jackson Park began, kicking off a process that will cost more than $200 million and take up to several months before the groundbreaking in Jackson Park later this year.
But Herb Caplan, president and founder of Protect Our Parks, said he will fight until the prospect of shovels hitting the ground in Jackson Park is doomed.
“The new lawsuit in effect starts a whole new calendar of litigation,” Caplan said in a phone interview.
In an emailed statement, an Obama Foundation representative defended the planned presidential center as a “world-class institution” on the South Side that has engaged “thousands” of Chicagoans.
“The foundation is prepared to vigorously defend against this lawsuit, and we continue to look ahead to a groundbreaking in the fall of this year,” the statement read. “Several months ago, we celebrated the conclusion of the federal reviews, a robust and transparent process that extended more than three years and involved extensive consulting party and community input.”
Regarding that expectation of groundbreaking this fall, Caplan added, “I think they’re very afraid that we’re going to succeed, and so they’re trying to in effect speed things up in some way to, in effect, make construction in Jackson Park irreversible.”
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Everything Hussein touched turned to merde.
Maybe Obama won’t get everything he desires.
If he doesn’t we should expect him to cry racism.
He is predictable.
The Kenyanesian Usurper deserves no monument to himself.
Will it have sufficient parking? Will they add a lane to the road so tourists don’t block traffic trying to get inside?
I think the word ‘racist’ didn’t work as well as they thought. It didn’t cover enough people so now it’s ‘white supremacy”, which covers a lot more ‘white’ people.
Why would he need a whole center for a load of nothing and a selfie stick.
I hope they have dedicated lanes to enter the parking area. That is not exactly an upscale part of Chicago. And hopefully there is security.
Will it be complete with porch honkeys ?
At least, let them dynamite the site, plus the 25 square miles around it, before halting things with this lawsuit.
Not the worst part of the city. Right next to the University of Chicago campus, which has gentrified much of the neighborhood north of the Midway. From there to Jackson Park including Woodlawn is mostly OK. Lots of students and university people. You should know that the Obamas, who have a house right there in the Woodlawn area wouldn’t expose themselves or their precious ego monument to the local talent. It will be carefully isolated from the bad blocks south of the Midway, and won’t have anything to offer to the local underclass. I bet it will have bulletproof glass for windows though, as it gets rather boisterous around there at night.
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