Posted on 05/12/2015 9:52:43 AM PDT by Nachum
CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama has decided to build his presidential library on the South Side of Chicago, where his political career began.
The Barack Obama Foundation announced in a news release early Tuesday that the library will be erected on park land that was proposed for the site by the University of Chicago. The site was selected over bids made by Columbia University in New York, the University of Hawaii and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"With a library and a foundation on the South Side of Chicago, not only will we be able to encourage and affect change locally, but what we can also do is to attract the world to Chicago." Obama said in a video accompanying the release. "All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago. That's where I was able to apply that early idealism to try to work in communities in public service. That's where I met my wife. That's where my children were born."
The decision was hardly a surprise. The University of Chicago's bid was long considered a front-runner, and people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press and other media nearly two weeks ago that it was the winner.
Both the president and first lady once worked at the university, and they still maintain a house near campus. Obama taught constitutional law and worked as a community organizer on the South Side. First lady Michelle Obama is a Chicago native and worked as an administrator at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
"Every value, every memory, every important relationship to me exists in Chicago. I consider myself a South Sider," Michelle Obama said.
In recent weeks, city officials were forced to take extra steps to
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In the baddest part of town?
What would LeRoy Brown have said? (think Jim Croce)
Well at least he doesn’t have to worry about it being robbed in that location
Now, I am SURE LIEBAARRYs are Anathema to black folks. At least at a Museum you can LOOK at stuff. In a lieberry you got’s ta read, even cursive. Who is being raciss here?
I would have bet it was going to be in Baltimore.
They cleared a large area for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARDMzvQ-vI
South Side of Crapcago eh, how many coloring books will it have along with a bunch of self help books on how to plug a blunt.
Thank you. I was perusing the responses to see if I needed to post this or not. =)
Yeh. If you go down there, you better just beware...
-PJ
I remember riding the train through that area back in the ‘70s...fires in 55-gallon barrels, burned-out buildings everywhere, trash and graffiti; looked like Beirut! So yes, that is the most fitting place for this scumbag’s ‘lie-brary’.
“...will there be fines for late book returns??...”
Books????
Nobody that visits this place will be reading anything...
Yhey don’t care about readin’ ritin’, or rithmatic....
“This one will be more shrine/temple than library.”
More like a mosque.
Isn’t that boytown in Chicago?
If only he actually did accomplish “nothing”. Truth is he’s done a world of damage to this once great country.
aint it spose to be a Libarry??
Definitely nothing from the state department for the archives.
Nah, that was Valerie Jarrett. Obammy spent his time in the hot tub with Reggie Love and on the golf course.
museums are for white people. Michele said so. and books are racist. nothing but free cable tv shows piped in on obamaphones.
Yep, that’s why I suggested the far east side of Chicago (Lake Michigan) as an appropriate location for Obama’s library.
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