Posted on 04/30/2015 5:45:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama presidential library will be located in Chicago, according to media reports.
The University of Chicago reportedly beat out three other finalists that submitted bids to build the library — the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University in New York and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu — according to NBC News.
An official announcement is expected in mid-May, CBS 2 Chicago reported.
The foundation overseeing the creation of the library did not respond to a request for comment.
The Windy City, where the president and first lady lived and worked before Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004, was long considered the front-runner to land the library.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, has lobbied hard for the library to be located in his city.
The president has deep ties to the University of Chicago. He taught at the university's law school for 12 years. His former senior adviser, David Axelrod, runs the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and attended college there.
The site selection had been delayed over concerns that the University of Chicago's bid proposed two sites that required the acquisition of public park land. The announcement was further pushed back in March due to Chicago's runoff mayoral election, which Emanuel won.
The Illinois state legislature last week passed a bill that would allow the library to legally be built on park land.
I hear ya.
Illinois is broke, so who’s going to pay for it?
1. Koran. 2. Commie manifesto. 3. Koran. 4. Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals. 5. Koran. 6. Malcolm X. 7. Koran. 8. Protocols of Elders of Zion (sic). 9. Koran. 10. Mein Kamph. Can all be fit in one carry bag. Let’s buy him a one way ticket home to Kenya and he can take his library with him.
On the south side hopefully so it will be first in line for the next riot and looting. Way to go feckless one, you finally did one thing half a@@ right.
Can we assume that everything about his administration will be sealed for two hundred years?
Duplicate (even triplicate) threads don't really bother me.
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Planning to have a branch in Tehran, no doubt.
You can bet it wont be built on the dangerous south or west side.
It will be a Once in a Life Time Pilgrimage for Democrats ,LOL
She’s not guilty.
Yep, his pal Val’s relatives in Tehran will frequent it.
Excellent. One more reason to never go there.
Why are they building a whole library just to house 2 books?
Kind of like building a repository for Hillary Clinton’s records as Secretary of State.
It will be their Mecca.
They can make their Hajj to stand in awe at the temple of their prophet, the Obamatollah.
Next to the County Jail?
I'd contribute to that!
Joliet prison?
Maybe he could locate it in Cabrini Green (and maybe it has the same end)
No more money laundering Presidential Libraries, period. It is not a right. There should be only one which all former Presidents share. No more tax money for corrupt institutions. IMHO!!!
Come on now, it does matter. Someday the rat-bastard might need the money.
I will be the first to go into the library and read the book./SSSS = heavy sarcasm!
PS. we are on the same page.
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