Fate of Obama Presidential Center could be determined by outcome of Tuesday hearing
CHICAGO - In what could determine the fate of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a federal judge will hear final arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by environmentalists against the city that challenges whether the sprawling campus can be built in a public park.
"I'm all in favor of this investment on the South Side," said Herbert Caplan, president of Protect Our Parks, the group that filed the lawsuit seeking to stop the center from being located in Jackson Park. "I've argued that the South Side would be better served if the OPC were built in another community like Woodlawn and South Shore."
Caplan's group argues in its lawsuit that the city doesn't have authority to offer public parkland to a private foundation for the $500 million project. The city has asked the judge to
