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Work begins at $700M Obama Center but opponents say fight isn’t over (the locals still don't want it)
The Real Deal ^ | 8/16/21 | Jennifer Waters

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.

**SNIP**

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at therealdeal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: chicago; liebarry; monument; obama
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TIMBER!
1 posted on 08/16/2021 5:32:39 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

$700,000,000 for Barry’s mosque.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 5:37:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Libloather

Hey, they need a place to house all of his unsold books. :)


3 posted on 08/16/2021 5:41:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

Let Obama pay for it. No body except investigative reporters looking for smoking guns will go there anyway, and doubtless they will be ejected for being what they are. He can get a second mortgage on his Martha’s Vineyard mansion, as I see no value in it at all.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 5:46:01 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Libloather

The Kenyanesian Usurper does not deserve so much as an outhouse.

He was never a natural born citizen and was never eligible to be President.

ALL of our elected AND appointed abrogated the Constitution when they swore him in.


5 posted on 08/16/2021 5:46:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

Obama the peace maker.
Humble servant of the people.
Even the white people.
And that really old guy he had for VP.
8 years.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 5:47:27 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Libloather

7 posted on 08/16/2021 5:48:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

How tone deaf. How about helping people in Chicago with homeless shelters with that 700 mil? Pos.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 6:00:52 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WHY WOULD ANYBODY DONATE 10 CENTS TO CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT A KENYAN WAS MADE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?


9 posted on 08/16/2021 6:02:42 PM PDT by Stayfree (FuckGeorgeSoros.com is for sale!!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The ego of that idiot is unbelievable. Who the hell throws a huge birthday party for themselves like that? Never in a million years would I be so assuming and arrogant, and an “Obama center” in the middle of a park costing almost a billion dollars? Is this guy kidding me?


10 posted on 08/16/2021 6:10:25 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Libloather

There needs to be lots of BLM graffiti on it in honor of Dorkbama’s, lies, and general incompetence. Let’s give (dis)honor where it is most certainly due. After all, dissing gubmit buildings was OK, so hopefully the favor will be returned. And returned again.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 6:11:01 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Secret Agent Man
Hey, they need a place to house all of his unsold books.

And his massive gay porn collection...
12 posted on 08/16/2021 6:14:30 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: Libloather

Think he’ll engrave his two autobios in gold and exclaim they were the real Mormon tablets?


13 posted on 08/16/2021 6:16:31 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Libloather

King Fool, destroyer of the Democrat party wants to build a temple to himself.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 6:21:36 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Libloather

Every time the surveying stakes are put in they should be taken down.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 6:23:33 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: Libloather

Name a sewage treatment plant after him and exhibit a few turds in glass cases with his and Mooch’s names on them. Much cheaper and more historically accurate.


16 posted on 08/16/2021 6:27:15 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Build it in Kenya.


17 posted on 08/16/2021 6:27:31 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Libloather

I work in Chicago. That’s hardcore Democrats neighborhood and they don’t want Obama center


18 posted on 08/16/2021 6:36:45 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Lee25

The equivalent would be to tear apart a big chunk of Central Park to build an ugly Stalinist building to memorialize Andrew Cuomo.


19 posted on 08/16/2021 6:59:05 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative. .)
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To: Libloather

So the community organizer thinks it’s appropriate to spend 70 million dollars on a temple to his greatness instead of using such funds to assist the community!


20 posted on 08/16/2021 8:17:51 PM PDT by DrHFrog
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