The Obama Foundation is giving the public a virtual preview of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, a 19-acre, community-rooted campus slated to open on Chicago’s South Side in spring 2026. Located in the Jackson Park neighborhood, the space will feature a wide range of facilities and green space, including a fruit and vegetable garden, a podcast studio, a Chicago Public Library branch, and an open field — called the Great Lawn — for outdoor movies and sledding. A new kind of presidential library Unlike other presidential libraries, the Obama Presidential Center will be managed by the private Obama Foundation —...