Obama non-library ‘presidential center’ in Chicago devolving into a fiasco

American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
1/10/2018

Excerpts:

The first community organizer to become president has managed to anger community groups so much with his planned personal monument, aka a “presidential center,” that part of the plan was just scrapped.

Lolly Bowean of the Chicago Tribune reports:

Bowing to community pressure, the Obama Foundation has scrapped its plan for an above-ground parking garage and will instead build an underground facility below the presidential center in Jackson Park, officials said late Monday.

The original plan would have grabbed a treasured part of Chicago’s park system, the Midway (site of Chicago’s World’s Fair), for a two-story garage.  The group Save the Midway sprang up to protect the historic public park land from a private developer (the Obama Foundation) appropriating the land for a private purpose (the Obama Center will not be part of the National Archives System):

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As for that “suitably modern” design, it appears to my eyes to be designed in the tradition known as “brutalism” for its use of raw concrete and blank facades:

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