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A view of the Obama Presidential Center looking north shows the Museum, Forum and Library. The Museum, the tallest structure on site, will serve as a latern for the Obama Presidential Center and the South Side and mark a visitor’s arrival. The library and Forum are singly story structures with planted terraces. Generous pathways take visitors from the park to landscaped roofs above these two buildings, where one can view the plaza, Lagoon and Lake Michigan. Photo Credit: Obama Foundation
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Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a community event on May 3, 2017 at the South Shore Cultural Center, located on 7059 South Shore Dr., where the Obama Foundation released the conceptual vision and site map for the Obama Presidential Center. The Obama Presidential Center, [which won’t be completed until 2021], will be integrated into Jackson Park, a historic park in the heart of the South Side of Chicago and the community the Obamas call home. “The Obama Presidential Center will also strengthen the
economic climate of the community by bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to the South Side every year, creating new jobs and opportunities on the South Side and revitalizing historic Jackson Park,” according to a press release. Obama said there are a lot of Presidential Libraries and he believes there is a tendency to think that his Presidential Center will be a monument of the past or display his record of accomplishments during his presidential terms. “When Michelle and I started talking about the
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