The Center’s 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park will include a museum devoted to Barack Obama’s presidency, a basketball court, a community garden, and a branch of the Chicago Public Library.

Former President Obama was in the Windy City to check on the progress of the nearly finished Barack Obama Presidential Library. Former President Barack Obama made a holiday pop-up visit to a Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bids for the future home of the Obama Presidential Library were due Monday. For now, there is no public money available to help attract the library to Chicago, as five competitors ...

Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy? That’s a question US President Barack Obama will soon answer when he and First Lady Michelle Obama announce ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A federal judge has denied a request to halt construction on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park after a Chicago park advocacy group filed a new federal lawsuit. On Thursday ...

Obama Presidential Center opens June in Chicago with anti-racism commitment for all hires, contrasting President Donald Trump's federal DEI elimination.

After 10 years of planning, construction and setbacks, former President Barack Obama’s presidential center will finally open to the public next summer. During an interview in Arkansas on Monday, Obama ...

Barack Obama is facing the wrath of the internet over his non-traditional presidential library being erected in Chicago. Internet users likened the looming, concrete and granite building to something ...

CHICAGO, May 12 (Reuters) - Barack Obama's presidential library will be built in his hometown of Chicago, the Obama Foundation announced on Tuesday. Chicago beat out proposals by New York City and ...

A group of Chicago elementary school students had an unexpected visitor Tuesday when former President Barack Obama walked in wearing a Santa hat and sat down to read to them. The Burke Elementary ...