Obama Center federal reviews come close to an end


There is an end in sight for a pair of years-long federal reviews of the Obama Presidential Center, and based on a Thursday briefing we now know City Hall will not insist on replacement land outside of Jackson Park to make up for the 19.3 acres the complex will occupy.



President Obama chose to build his presidential center in Jackson Park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. This is what sparked the series of reviews around the project. Lyn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times writes that, "the debate over the use of a historic park has over the years...exposed race and class fault lines in Chicago when it comes to the questions of whose voices should prevail in the fate of a historic park."

City Hall held a webinar to work through preservation concerns around the park, and Sweet reports that the reviews could be done soon.

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