Exclusive details: Bid for Obama Library on Lake Michigan shore

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 3, 2014 | Lynn Sweet

[John W]

This rendering of the proposed presidential library is included in the bid to the Barack Obama Foundation from McCaffery Interests. Developer Dan McCaffery wants the library to be a focal point of his 589-acre Chicago Lakeside project, site of the former U.S. Steel South Works. | Rendering by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

[laweeks]

How ‘bout a homosexual bathhouse since he’d be returning to his roots. Make sure it’s off-shore.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

That artist has it all wrong. Mosques don’t look like that!

[grania]

It’s ugly, an old steelworks site is probably polluted, and that unbalanced and irrational structure it will probably fall into the polluted lake. What’s not to like?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I actually like it.

(sorry, but I do)

It seems right, and it is around the right time in his administration to start thinking about stuff like this anyway.

[SkyDancer]

Why such a huge building for one book and a couple of clipboards?

[Stormdog]

Put it where it belongs....Kenya.

[John W]

Putting it on a former steel works site seems quite appropriate.

[trisham]

Or on a land fill.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yeah, I’m sure you’re going to be among the first to camp out, waiting for it to open.

[raybbr]

I used to work there. Sad to see it turned over to the communists.

[RightGeek]

The adjacent neighborhoods are where Obama once worked as a community organizer

All you need to know.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Nah.

I just like it. It seems appropriate. It’s on southern Lake Michigan in sight of downtown Chicago, which is Obama country.

It’s appropriate.

[MtnClimber]

I vote he puts it in Havana.

[cripplecreek]

Seems to me a house or mirrors would be most appropriate.

[Iron Munro]

I see they have already started site preparation

[Starstruck]

Now I’m praying for Global Warming. Let the lakes rise.

[Dr. Sivana]

Actually, if it HAS to be on the South Side, 79th is a good choice. I was afraid it was going to go near the Point at 55th, in front of my old dormitory, the Shoreland.

Seventy-Ninth is close to the Skyway, AND is near a White Castle, the Land of Moo and Oink butchers, and I believe a Leon’s BBQ. It might help the area crime rate a bit.

[cripplecreek]

Maybe a caddyshack would be more appropriate.

[Renegade]

At the rate they are killing themselves in Chicago there will be no locals left to visit!