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"Democrats in this state, when not going to prison for corruption, treat taxpayers like a personal piggy bank giving sweetheart deals to their political benefactors."

800 old growth trees were removed to make room for the cement tomb.

1 posted on 09/27/2025 10:04:04 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Shocked face.


2 posted on 09/27/2025 10:16:08 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Libloather

That thing looks like a soviet radar installation.


3 posted on 09/27/2025 10:20:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Libloather

The grift continues


4 posted on 09/27/2025 10:21:40 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Libloather

The Monument to Zer0

It is fitting that it is so ugly.

5 posted on 09/27/2025 10:23:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“Could leave Chicagoans on the hook for millions of dollars”

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Somebody won’t be getting that third yacht.


7 posted on 09/27/2025 10:23:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Presidential libraries are as big a folly as preserving old warships and the like. At least the saved warships did something useful by comparison. Presidential libraries are a folly to self-aggrandizement, misplaced ego and other delusions of grandeur.

The only memorial obama needs is a headstone and a small one at that.


9 posted on 09/27/2025 10:25:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Libloather

Install loud speakers on the monolith for the call to prayer.


10 posted on 09/27/2025 10:27:21 AM PDT by KingLudd
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It's 50% more than that when you add in later removals for "traffic improvements."

Estimates consistently cite 640–800 old-growth trees cleared from the Jackson Park site alone starting in August 2021, with an additional 300–463 trees removed for traffic improvements and park relocations. A 2018 tree inventory by Bartlett Tree Experts valued the 640 site trees at over $3.5 million and noted their role in storing 203 tons of carbon and removing 341 pounds of air pollution annually.


LOL...so those Dems like CO2 and air pollution! Hard to square that circle.
11 posted on 09/27/2025 10:35:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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0$ama Hussein is a grifter.


13 posted on 09/27/2025 10:53:27 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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...the empty promise could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.

No way! Who could have seen that coming?

Reported yesterday that they are $618 MILLION into this project already and it looks like a Dresden firehouse. Where did the money go? Oh, where?

15 posted on 09/27/2025 10:58:24 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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And yet, it has given $2M to the radical Tides Foundation that has nothin to do with the library.


17 posted on 09/27/2025 11:08:43 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: Libloather

Leftists are axiomatically incapable of doing anything without grift.

If they attempted this any sane place (NOT Chicago) their failure to pony up the reserve $ would trigger a total halt.

If this continued is a sane state (not IL) the management and contractors would be sued, fined, put out of business and possibly jailed for fraud.

Instead they burned money for years and everyone involved knew full well they’d just toss the cost on the taxpayer.


21 posted on 09/27/2025 11:22:58 AM PDT by No.6
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To: Libloather

LOL! SHITCAGO!


22 posted on 09/27/2025 11:39:36 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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“....could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars...”

I hope so...good and HARD!


23 posted on 09/27/2025 12:09:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Libloather

Did the agreement specify a date and a ring?


25 posted on 09/27/2025 12:17:01 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

Tear it down now. Finally, the truths about Obama are coming out, and those truths are as ugly as the monstrosity being built in a Chicago city park.


27 posted on 09/27/2025 12:26:36 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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"The offices of Mayor Brandon Johnson, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Illinois did not respond to requests for comment."
LOL I'm sure they didn't.

But they will come up with some way to blame Trump and Republicans when the scheme goes belly up.

30 posted on 09/27/2025 1:06:59 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Libloather

No problem. Pritzker can levy an Illinois tax for the Obama Presidential library abomination ... what is another 800 million or billion to a rich state like Illinois.


31 posted on 09/27/2025 1:10:42 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: Libloather

Pull the permits until the endowment is funded.


34 posted on 09/27/2025 2:12:20 PM PDT by meatloaf
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In the mean time the Obama library has given $2M to the Tides Foundation.


37 posted on 09/27/2025 3:44:31 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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