Timetable for Obama Presidential Center's groundbreaking, opening still uncertain
by Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune
Dec 28, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - The project has gained Chicago City Council approval, many of the architectural drawings of the Obama Presidential Center have been drafted and refined and a collective of contractors has been hired to build the campus.
But nearly four years after the $500 million project to be constructed in Jackson Park was first announced, no new date for a groundbreaking has been set, and there's no updated time frame for when the campus will open.
The pause in progress on the Obama center is related, in part, to a federal
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