Chicago Officials HALT Obama Library Construction, Reveal Sweetheart Rent Deal

Awwwwww, poor Hopey-Changey. **sniff sniff** Don’t the people in Chicago want to be fleeced by this guy and his fake ‘legacy’ for the next (almost) 100 years? Go figure.

Chicago Officials HALT Obama Library Construction, Reveal Sweetheart Rent Deal

The Chicago Park District has put a halt to preparations being made for the Obama Presidential Library, until after a Federal court reviews a lawsuit filed by Chicago residents, and Federal agencies assess the transfer of historic public land to a private entity.

But in the meantime, permits and agreements filed by Chicago city officials, and with the Chicago Department of Transportation, reveal a sweetheart rent deal that any Chicago renter (or landlord) would certainly envy: the Obama Foundation will pay a mere $10 for a 99-year lease on what is supposed to be a public park

The Chicago Park District had begun felling trees on land destined to become part of the Obama Library complex, but those preparations ground to a halt Monday after the Chicago Department of Transportation refused to grant a permit that would have allowed the Park District to move utility lines running through the site. CDOT delayed a decision on the matter until after the Federal lawsuit and Federal assessments have been resolved.

Hearings on the lawsuit, which claims the Obama Library received unprecedented, and potentially illegal, assistance from the state of Illinois, and the city of Chicago, start Thursday. Plaintiffs claim that the Library is being granted part of historic Jackson Park -- a huge public green space designed by Frederick Olmsted (the same man who designed New York City's Cental Park, and dedicated for the people of Chicago's recreational use. They also say that plans to move two major arteries, that currently run across Jackson Park, will harm economic growth and isolate residents of Chicago's south side.

Construction also halted on a new athletic field -- a project the city claims has no connection to the Obama Library complex. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the city might have misled residents: the Obama Foundation appears to have granted more than $2 million to the city for the new athletic field, because the old one will need to be demolished to make room for Obama's massive complex.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36066/chicago-officials-halt-obama-librar...

The Empty Suit epitomizes lies, deceit, and lining his pockets. I cannot believe the taxpayers in Illinois/Chicago are going to go for this. Maybe they’ll be the first to tell the guy ‘no’.

His entire legacy can be summed up in one picture and this should be his shrine:

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TheOtherMaven's picture

The trees have been hacked down, and even complete stoppage of the project will never replace them.

Chicago will probably go for the "sunk costs" fallacy and barge madly ahead anyway.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

@TheOtherMaven

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

dystopian's picture

Great news Amanda!

Oh the vanity. Did you hear, Obama wants a million Obama and
Michelles. What a friggin' ego. I guess he wants a million
people that drone murder without due process. He wants a
million people to take the public commons for personal grandiose
ego-feeding reasons.

For those that don't know, the park is the premiere bird
migration stopover habitat in all of metro Chicago. It is
famous coast to coast for the numbers and varieties of birds
that stop there to rest and refuel there. I have had hard
core birders tell me some of the best days they ever saw
in migration were there urging me to 'go do it'. Early to
mid-May I think is peak spring migration there.

Of course the birds have been using the trees Obama is
removing for his ego for hundreds of years and countless
generations. By the thousands annually. But what is really
important, trees, birds, and nature in an urban area where
there is none. Or the big orifice Obama.

There are millions of sq. ft. in Chicago not being used.
Empty lots, empty buildings, literally hundreds of sites
where 500 year old oak trees would not be seen as in the way.
Does Obama care? Just about his metastasized ego. He is a
disgusting money grubbing, attention whore whose ego cannot
be satisfied.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

Bollox Ref's picture

is still open. Perhaps they can build the 'library' there.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

@Bollox Ref

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

snoopydawg's picture

He is building his library in the south side of Chicago where lower income people live and he knows that it will drive up the cost of housing which will force people out of their homes..

Jackson park

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The Question is: Why would the Obamas, who have the ultimate decision of location, want to choose to destroy the historical Integrity of arguably one of the most historic public park systems in the City and quite possibly the United States?

The potential site for his library.

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Grifters gotta grift ehh? $10/99 years is a hell of a deal, Barry. The library being built there has been protested against since the minute it was proposed.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg @snoopydawg
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
~ Carl Sandburg

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@smiley7
Replaced by gangs committing unspeakable crimes and corrupt police that are just as bad.
Illinois is losing population and it is poor but honest people fleeing the no man's land that the West and South sides have become, where nightly gunfire is as common as crickets on a farm.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

fraud made popular by the Clinton gang. Basically a a presedential non-profit charity is created for a library and then illegally expanded to enrich. Charles Ortel has spent a lot of research time on this subject.
https://youtu.be/GEZllUGCcmI

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chuck utzman

TULSI 2020

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/obama-presidential-center-jackson-...

I'll bet Barry got his sly money moving skills from talking to Hillary and the "folks" (I've always hated his use of that word) at the Clinton Foundation.

Boy.... if I could take back some Presidential votes I made....

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