Posted on 08/18/2021 9:29:27 PM PDT by Libloather
A Chicago park advocacy group asked the Supreme Court to block construction on former President Obama’s presidential library, on the same day that shovels broke ground on the project.
Protect Our Parks and several other plaintiffs made the 11th hour plea to the high court Monday over environmental concerns, according to The Hill.
The group asked the court to issue an emergency halt on construction in the city’s Jackson Park on the South Side, claiming that federal, state and local governments broke the project into smaller pieces to sidestep a full environmental assessment, according to the report.
The emergency request said that construction would reportedly “demolish significant parts of Jackson Park, its historical resources, parkland, and trees, which will, in turn, adversely affect the human environment, the historic landscape, wildlife, and migratory birds.”
A 2018 legal push from Protect Our Parks to halt construction on the $500 million project was blocked by a federal judge.
“We await word from the Court as to next steps,” an Obama Foundation spokesperson told the outlet.
“On Monday, August 16 the Obama Foundation officially began construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park,” the statement reportedly continued, “and we are excited to bring this historic project to the city of Chicago.”
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Latest price tag for Obama Presidential Center estimated to be $830 million
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Who in their right mind would want this massive shrine to an arrogant, narcissistic fool in their neighborhood?
LOL, they would not even uphold the Constitution that says he cannot be President......
The people in that part of Chicago have never wanted Obama’s “Library” built there. Their will has been ignored from Day One. I’m sure they keep asking: Why must THAT piece of land be used for this project?
It may be nothing more than Obama doesn’t appreciate being told ‘No’, so just for that, now he insists on using that piece of real estate, just to show everybody who’s Boss!
Gee,. I thought everybody Chicago loved Obama /s
Just convert that bathhouse - man’s island or whatever it was.
The court will say they don’t have standing.
Man’s Country
How do you spend $830 MILLION to build a Presidential Library? Isn’t that more than what we spent to build the now Taliban controlled US embassy?
I think part of this story is that the group wants a pay-off of some type, and the Obama group refused to pay the game.
Something is just weird about all this effort by the fake obamanation.
IL and Chicago are not at all where he came from, grew up, or spent a big chunk of his life.
Seems like bathhouse Berry would be more attached to a lie-berry location constructed near KGB asset Franky Davis’s Hawaiian joint, where Berry himself claims he grew up, and was mentored by marxist and racist Frank Davis.
In college, the Obamanation was all over the planet, and not in IL.
Maybe the Nezbit’s have some kind of influence in this.
The lie-berry should have UVA’s flying around shooting live rounds at visitors.
Gotta stay somewhat historically accurate.
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Tower of Obama-Borg
Isn’t Jackson Park where 0 made his 2008 victory speech?
Neo-brutalist ziggurat of suck.
CC
They should build it on Molokai, the old Leper colony.
No. That was millenium park. Closer to downtown.
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