Posted on 08/13/2021 5:37:51 PM PDT by Libloather
The Obama Presidential Foundation takes possession of 19.3 acres in Jackson Park at 11:59 p.m. Friday for the Obama Center unless there is a last-minute delay needed for City Hall to scrutinize the foundation’s new IRS financial disclosure report.
There will be no ceremony marking the official transfer, which was not publicly announced. The final legal documents will be electronically signed Friday at 9 p.m., a City Hall official said.
An Obama Foundation spokesperson told the Sun-Times construction starts Monday in the park, designed by famed landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
In July 2016, then-President Barack Obama, who launched his political career on the South Side, selected Jackson Park, the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, for his center.
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Usually, such buildings are filled with the history of the person. However, given that Obama has sequestered virtually everything from his and Michelle’s past, I think the only thing the public will find in it is an echo.
I think Barry’s getting off on building his monstrosity over the White City.
I wonder if he’ll have his Fraudulent Long Form Birth Certificate on display along with his Connecticut Social Security Card?
Or so said Joe Biden.
“There will be no ceremony marking the official transfer, which was not publicly announced. “
That’s a shame. I’d have thought at least the Choom Gang would be on hand to fire up bongs to mark the occasion.
Will there be any books, or is reading racist?
19 acres for this A-hole? There goes downtown Chicago.
If it is the same place I saw years ago as a 3-D miniature, the buildings are not very pleasing to look at.
A 19 acre tribute to a commie pothead—how wonderful.
Will the call to prayer sound 5 times a day?
Who in their right mind would venture into Chicago for a look?
An outhouse would have done nicely, and would have been more than sufficient.
They look a lot like dressed up Soviet era concrete apt buildings.
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