Gov. J.B. Pritzker talks about the development of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago s South Side.
CHICAGO â Preliminary construction for the Obama Presidential Center at Jackson Park has begun, officials said Wednesday while kicking off a process that will cost more than $200 million and take up to several months before the official campus groundbreaking later this year.
The announcement during a news conference outside the Museum of Science and Industry comes two months after a federal review process that for four years had snagged the arrival of the Obama center concluded. At the time, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the conclusion was a âmajor milestoneâ and projected preliminary work will start in April.
Lawsuit seeks to halt Obama Center work
Lawsuit seeks to halt Obama Center work
A coalition that previously attempted to block the Jackson Park project sued again, just as pre-construction work began.
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Just as Obama Foundation, city, and state officials marked the first tentative steps toward pre-construction of the Obama Presidential Center, a coalition of groups led by Protect Our Parks has filed a lawsuit today in another attempt to halt construction.
The case was filed Wednesday in federal court against federal and state transportation and highway officials, the U.S. Interior, the National Park Service, the city of Chicago, its park district, and the Obama Foundation.
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‘A Promised Land:’ President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center
The struggle to balance the need for a presidential library with preservation issues is the most delicate of balancing acts.
The Obama Presidential Center is slated to open sometime this year. Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president has recently published the first installment in two-part memoir titled
A Promised Land. While both of these events represent milestones in Obama’s career, the road to establishing the presidential center has been nothing short of rocky. The struggle to balance the need for a presidential library with preservation issues is the most delicate of balancing acts.
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The ordinance change reduces the 7.5-acre parkland requirement to 5.5 acres for new residential developments. Helen Robinson
With so many people making use of city parkland over the past year to escape the doldrums of the pandemic, it comes as no surprise that some members of Colorado Springs City Council are taking heat this month after approving an ordinance that allows developers to dedicate less land for it in the future.Â
Since the 1970s, developers in Colorado Springs have been required to dedicate 7.5 acres of parkland per 1,000 residents for new residential developments, but City Council voted 5-4 at a regular meeting Feb. 9 to cut that down to 5.5 acres, while almost doubling the fees developers must pay per acre if they cannot meet that requirement. The parks department then must use that money to add or enhance parkland in the same area.