Posted on 08/16/2021 5:32:39 PM PDT by Libloather
As construction crews on Monday began preliminary work on the $700 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, a local advocacy group was prepping for another run at stopping it.
Protect Our Parks said it would appeal a federal court judge’s decision to deny its emergency request to halt construction. The group is among several that have battled the Obama Foundation in court to move the complex two miles away to Washington Park.
Protect Our Parks and other neighborhood organizations want the center built farther south because they believe it will better bolster a needier area with jobs and development, and will not impact Dusable Lake Shore Drive or eat up Lake Michigan parkland. And while the long-awaited Obama Center project has drawn the attention of developers and investors to the South Side, Jackson Park neighbors fear it will bring more gentrification and price hikes that will squeeze them out of their homes.
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The Obama Center, which is not an official presidential library, will take about four years to develop its four buildings.
Epstein said his next court effort will be aimed at keeping construction crews from taking down hundreds of trees in Jackson Park beginning in September. Jarrett said last month that only 350 trees would be taken down - the foundation said many were small or diseased - but Epstein thinks it’s more like 800.
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They could fit all of Barry’s papers in a $700 add-on bookcase in his basement.
Why the hell would anybody pay almost a billion for a “center”?
Biden makes us a laughingstock and this ridiculous building does, too.
#8. Re “ How about helping people in Chicago”?
Obama: “I don’t care about no stinkin’ people in Chicago. I got what I wanted - fame, power, money, houses, glory and a chance to turn America into a Marxist shithole. YES I DID!”
Michelle added, “Let them eat grits”!
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