BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Free tours of Obama Presidential Center to start soon in Chicago.
Construction is coming along on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.
The Obama Foundation will start offer free community tours to take a look at the property.
People can ask questions, see the renderings, and take a walking tour outside the fence of the construction site.
In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.”
And as the library nears completion, we must face facts: thanks to the runaway inflation during Obama’s third term, $850 million doesn’t go as far as it used to:
Obama taking a lot of heat for his brutalist presidential library, but people forget that only this type of construction can withstand that tough Chicago weather of strong wind, big temperature swings, and near constant spray of stray bullets. https://t.co/NvnzI7xsgY
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) October 14, 2025
Still though, in case we really do need to go to war with Canada, Chicago will have one heck of a flak tower once the library is completed.
