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greatauntoftriplets

(176,840 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:02 PM Apr 2015

Obama library coming to Chicago!

Just announced (will find a link). It's to be somewhere around the University of Chicago.
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Chicago’s South Side To Get Obama Library: Sources
April 30, 2015 5:13 PM

(CBS) – Indications are Chicago’s quest for the Barack Obama presidential library has succeeded.

It’s a major coup for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and, perhaps more importantly, for the South Side, CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.

The final confirmation was implied in a phone call last Friday to Emanuel and state Democratic legislative leaders meeting in his office.

The Obama Presidential Library will rise either in Washington Park at King Drive and Garfield Boulevard or at the other site proposed by the University of Chicago, in Jackson Park, south of the Museum of Science and Industry, near 60th and Stony Island.

The announcement is now planned for the week after next, though it may not specify which site will be chosen.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/chicagos-south-side-to-get-obama-library-sources/

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Obama library coming to Chicago! (Original Post) greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 OP
Congratulations! hrmjustin Apr 2015 #1
Thanks! greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #2
wonder how long it will take to build it. mopinko Apr 2015 #3
Well, they can't start it until 2017. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #4
So cool, gaot. sheshe2 Apr 2015 #5
And ones without lots of pictures! greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #6
Yup~ sheshe2 Apr 2015 #14
Republicans shocked ... left-of-center2012 Apr 2015 #7
LOL. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #8
OMG! sheshe2 Apr 2015 #10
I travel through Chicago all the time, can't wait to visit. liberal N proud Apr 2015 #9
I'm ashamed to say I've never been to the Lincoln library. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #11
It is worth going out of your way to see it. liberal N proud Apr 2015 #12
road trip? mopinko Apr 2015 #13
Maybe some day. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #15
Great treestar May 2015 #16
It's a great boon for Chicago's South Side, whatever the final location. greatauntoftriplets May 2015 #17
You could spend an entire week at the Museum of Science and Industry. Major Hogwash May 2015 #18

mopinko

(71,802 posts)
3. wonder how long it will take to build it.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:16 PM
Apr 2015

they better hurry. if imma be a docent, i aint gettin any younger.

liberal N proud

(60,945 posts)
9. I travel through Chicago all the time, can't wait to visit.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:43 PM
Apr 2015

There then on to Springfield and Lincoln library and museum which is one of the coolest!

greatauntoftriplets

(176,840 posts)
17. It's a great boon for Chicago's South Side, whatever the final location.
Sat May 2, 2015, 09:09 AM
May 2015

When you come here, just don't do it in winter.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
18. You could spend an entire week at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Sun May 3, 2015, 03:02 PM
May 2015

It's fascinating.
They have a great website, too.

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