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Exclusive details: Bid for Obama Library on Lake Michigan shore
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 3, 2014 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 07/05/2014 2:52:45 PM PDT by John W

ARLINGTON, Va. — Among the rival locations in Chicago for the Obama library and museum, the most majestic one hugs the Lake Michigan shore on the Southeast Side with a stunning view of the Chicago skyline.

More than pretty, the Chicago Lakeside site has vast potential to trigger massive related economic growth and create jobs in an often ignored part of the city. With a presidential library and museum as an anchor, large-scale private investment that otherwise might take a generation to occur could happen in a decade.

“It is the most incredibly beautiful site in the city of Chicago,” developer Dan McCaffery is telling me as we discuss the bid for the library and museum he submitted to the Barack Obama Foundation last month. We’re talking in the suburban Washington office of his Chicago-based firm, where I had an exclusive look at the bid.

McCaffery, in a partnership with U.S. Steel, is offering the foundation free land: a prime location near 79th and the lake, the eastern-most point of the 589-acre Chicago Lakeside project.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.suntimes.com ...


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To: John W
It's so fitting that Obama’s library would also be a water slide....
41 posted on 07/05/2014 4:33:30 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: hummingbird

I guess they might jazz it up a bit if they bronze those clipboards.


42 posted on 07/05/2014 4:36:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: John W

Unless Valerie Jarret and his other cronies own land nearby and can profit from this sight, they can forget it!


43 posted on 07/05/2014 4:42:19 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Stormdog
Put it where it belongs....Kenya.

Load it with Ebooks so they can change the facts on-the-fly.
45 posted on 07/05/2014 5:09:31 PM PDT by RW_Whacko
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To: John W

poorly as obammy has done negros I’m surprised the Southeast Side of Chicago wants this shrine to the incompetent oaf.
Gotta believe black yut unemployment there is skyrocketing.


46 posted on 07/06/2014 3:57:31 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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