A new batch of library cards quietly landed at the Obama Presidential Center's library this week, I learned from faithful reader Ina "Breakfast Queen" Pinkney. Why it matters: Scores of library nerds, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Obama Presidential Center prepares to open this week in Chicago, plans for Donald Trump's presidential library are taking ...

Former President Barack Obama's $850 million presidential library in Chicago has been plunged into a fresh controversy as contractors say they still haven't been paid just days before its grand ...

The opening of Barack Obama’s presidential library in Chicago this Friday has inspired a new round of conversations around his remarkable rise and presidency. And there’s so much to celebrate. The ...

Amid the June 2026 opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, rumors spread online that the former president's foundation "stiffed" Black and minority contractors who worked on the museum, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public on Friday in Chicago, kicking off a Juneteenth weekend of celebrations and ...

More than a decade after it was first announced, the Obama Presidential Center and Library officially opens to the public in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 19, 2026. The expansive 20-acre campus is ...

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In the city of Chicago, which is about 90 minutes south of me, roughly 17 percent of the city's residents live in poverty. That's about 448,000 people, and of those, more than 160,000 were in 'deep ...

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Don't call it a library. The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened with huge fanfare last week in a park near the shore of Lake Michigan, but critics say what the public thinks is a library will ...