Obama Presidential Center Opens June 19 With $850 Million South Side Campus
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Obama Presidential Center Opens June 19 With $850 Million South Side Campus
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Summary
June 19 marks the opening of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center, a museum and recreational campus on Chicago’s South Side.
The project is expected to draw visitors beyond downtown attractions and spotlight a part of the city long overlooked by many tourists.
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the center’s architects, said the lakefront setting and sites such as Promontory Point showed the area’s potential to be transformed.
The opening positions the center as both a presidential destination and a broader gateway to the South Side’s cultural and waterfront appeal.