Plans for the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago have been at the center of debates for months now. Strong community opposition, petitions and now a lawsuit has been filed over the center, specifically how plans have been developed, rolled out and brought to Chicagoans without consideration of their concerns over a fair and legal project that meets their needs.
A city nonprofit called for a halt in construction over what it said was the project organizers’ misleading description of the center in a federal lawsuit Monday.
Protect Our Parks Inc., the nonprofit that filed in U.S. District Court, said organizers have pulled a “bait and switch” with marketing the center as a presidential library but later moving away from that idea, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Original plans for the center, slated for a 19-acre plot on the western edge of Jackson Park and expected to open in 2021, included space for historic documents and archives from Barack Obama’s presidency under the National Archives and Records Administration’s supervision. However, current plans have changed, Protect Our Parks said
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Source: Plans For Obama Presidential Center Delayed By Community Opposition
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