Posted on 08/11/2019 4:50:39 PM PDT by Libloather
In the interest of fiscal and environmental responsibility, Mayor Lori Lightfoot should declare Jackson Park off-limits to construction and spare the hundreds of historic trees slated for clear-cutting.
Trees help Chicago offset global warming.
Recent United Nations and Science reports prioritize massive tree planting to absorb and sequester CO2. Destroying Jackson Parks mature trees releases stored CO2 into the atmosphere. Saving them saves Illinois taxpayers $199 million.
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Building the OPC in a South Side neighborhood replaces unused buildings and empty lots, and facilitates business development. Choosing an already accessible location is infinitely fiscally and environmentally smarter than taxing Illinois residents millions of dollars to destroy irreplaceable Jackson Park trees.
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63rd and Stoney Island
He could go to East St. Louis.
The big sewage treatment plant is right across the street from the Altgeld Gardens housing project, where a young Barack Obama one worked as a community organizer. There is some open land around there, or some land that could be cleared, and the library there would tie into some real Obama history.
63rd and Stoney Island. The EL is there and a little used park. It is also where at age 15 I was almost killed for being white and at 18 bought a 69 Sportster from a kind black man.
What Obongo wants Obongo gets. Especially in Chicago.
How about ten miles out on the bottom of Lake Michigan?
I think one has to be a selfish, arrogant, egomaniac to think the scarce open spaces and park areas of a major city should be used for a presidential library. Those things are more appropriate for a university campus with room for reasonable new construction.
Obama is a thoughtless jerk for even considering such a site in Chicago.
Build it 3 miles due east.
As a Retired Water & Wastewater Treatment Operator I must flush that idea/thought COMPLETELY!!!
I will offer this suggestion
Its hilarious that Zero is having such a hard time doing this. Left is eating their own.
Did you go to Mt. Carmel? It’s about three blocks from there. I went there.
How about locating it closer to the Obamas new retirement compound in Hawaii? Like maybe a hundred miles west of Waimea?
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