President Obama has chosen the South Side of Chicago, neighboring the University of Chicago, as the site of his presidential library. Now he needs to decide what his library, and his post ...

As the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Library in Chicago morphed into the Obama Presidential Center—without a place to hold the records of his administration—reactions ranged from ...

This rumor circulated in May 2025 amid news of Qatar offering President Donald Trump's Department of Defense a $400 million luxury Boeing 747.

The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a presidential library like no other. The four-building, 19-acre “working center for citizenship,” set to be built in a public park on the South ...

President Barack Obama’s next campaign is about to begin. Even though his second inauguration is still weeks away, the work of his presidential library starts soon: Libraries take years of ...

Construction of former President Barack Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost ...

The Obama Presidential Center has faced yearslong delays. The center, commemorating the 44th U.S. president, will be a museum, library and education project with community and conference spaces.

The people who are not authorized to speak have spoken: Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum will be built on Chicago’s South Side. Multiple anonymous sources told multiple news ...

A long-running battle in President Obama's old Chicago neighborhood is winding its way into the competition over the future Obama presidential library. A group of young Chicago activists are ...

The cost of former President Obama's library in Chicago will be a bit heftier than initially anticipated. Valerie Jarrett, president of The Obama Foundation, said during an interview with The ...

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images In 2022, construction of the library was halted for several days after a noose was found on site. Concrete work ended in October 2024, according to the Obama ...