Chicago: After five years of legal battle, fears of gentrification and federal reviews, Barack and Michelle Obama are expected to attend Tuesday Tuesday celebration on their inheritance project in the Chicago Lakefront Park.
Construction on the site along Lake Michigan, near the Obama family house and where the former president began his political career on the south side of Chicago, officially started last month.
Job at Obama Presidential Center is expected to take around five years.
Obama is scheduled to host the event, which will be channeled online to limit the crowd in the middle of the Coronavirus Pandemic, with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois GOV.
J.B.
Pritzker.
“ With your help, we can make this catalystage center for economic opportunities, new world class goals on the south side and platforms for young people to direct change, “Obama said in the video announcement before innovative.
The center of the President, who will sit in 19 hectares of Jackson 540-Acre Park, will be unique among the presidential library.
President Obama’s paper will be available in digital form.
The vast campus center will include the Museum, Public Library Branch, Athletics Center, Kitchen Test and Children’s Playground.
The initial cost of this center is projected by $ 500 million, but the document released by the Obama Foundation last month shows approximately $ 830 million.
Funds are being appointed through personal donations.
Progress in the middle has been postponed by lawsuits and federal reviews needed because of the location of Jackson Park, which is on the national list of historical places.
At the same time, fear of the transfer of black population in developing regions into many years of battle which resulted in environmental protection approved by the city, including for affordable housing.
Obama chose Chicago in several cities including Honolulu, where he spent his initial years.
The former president said he hoped the center would help jump the south side of the city economy.
This is part of the city that has special significance for Obama.
This center is near the University of Chicago where Obama taught the law and where Obama married and lifted their two daughters.
Michelle Obama also grew on the south side.
`” When it’s time to plan the center of President Obama, we want to give something back to the place that gives us so much, “said Michelle Obama in the video announcement.
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