As Chicago prepares for this year’s slated groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Center, the former president on Friday touted the upcoming campus as a bridge toward healing a city hit with trying times since he first announced the complex’s location in Jackson Park.
Barack Obama continued a push to build support for his presidential centre on Chicago s lakefront on Friday, urging business leaders in the city to get involved with the project.
CHICAGO (AP) Barack Obama continued a push to build support for his presidential center on Chicago’s lakefront on Friday, urging business leaders in the city to get involved with the project. The former president announced his choice of Jackson Park on the city’s South Side in 2016 but construction for the $500 million project […]
Obama Foundation President Valerie Jarrett put a new cost on the Obama Presidential Center complex "less than" $700 million, up from a $500 million estimate.