Posted on 08/07/2021 3:48:12 AM PDT by Libloather
A Chicago group made up of residents and environmentalists suing to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center was dealt a blow Thursday after a federal judge, nominated by Obama, denied their request to halt this month's groundbreaking.
Judge John Robert Blakey denied a request by several local residents and the nonprofit group Protect Our Parks, which filed the lawsuit. The suit, among other things, argues that the batch of federal reviews into the former president's $700 million center was faulty.
The group claims construction would cause "irreparable harm" to the park by tearing up roads, cutting down trees, and messing with traffic patterns. Protect Our Parks members, which includes progressives, park-preservationists, a Libertarian, and a member of the NAACP, claim the roads within Jackson Park are integral to the open-space design created more than a century ago by American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Thursday's decision helps clear the way for an Aug. 16 groundbreaking and a 2025 center opening.
"It's been hard opposing Barack Obama," Brenda Nelms, a local activist who opposes the Jackson Park location, told Politico. "It's caused all kinds of name-calling."
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“A Chicago group made up of residents and environmentalists suing to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center was dealt a blow Thursday after a federal judge, nominated by Obama, denied their request to halt this month’s groundbreaking.”
There is so much wrong in that sentence that I don’t even know where to start.
I foresee many construction slowdowns, accidents, and various problems.
Corruption and favoritism is “the Chicago Way.””
Chicago is the perfect place for it. It’s a failed city, vying for the worst in the United States. It’s run by utterly corrupt politicians and against the will of the citizens and certainly not for their benefit.
It is a shame that we’ve fallen into the habit of the Romans: building temples to former emperors and treating them as gods.
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