A view of the Obama Presidential Center looking north shows the Museum, Forum and
Library. The Museum, the tallest structure on site, will serve as serve as a lantern for the Obama
Presidential Center and the South Side and mark a visitor’s arrival. The Library and Forum are
single story structures with planted terraces. Generous pathways take visitors from the park to
landscaped roofs above these two buildings, where one can view the plaza, Lagoon and Lake
Michigan
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama this afternoon unveiled a model and announced plans for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum
It’s a three-building campus that Obama says is not an ego trip nor a museum about the past, but a center to train the next generation to take up the torch. One of the interesting features he announced is a recording studio.
“I can invite Spike Lee or Steven Spielberg to come and do workshops on how to make films around the stories that young activists are working on,” Obama said. “We intend to have a music recording studio where I can invite Chance [The Rapper] or Bruce Springsteen, depending on your taste, to come here and talk about how you can record music that has social commentary and meaning.”
Obama says the center will take four years to build but training programs will begin this year and he and Michelle will donate $2 million for summer jobs for youth.
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