NEW YORK TIMES: …Mr. Obama’s library will be in his adopted home, Chicago’s South Side, according to two people who were briefed about the decision. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak before the official announcement.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff and led the lobbying effort to bring the library to the city where Mr. Obama first won elected office, is expected to make the announcement public within the next two weeks…
The University of Chicago had proposed two sites near its campus on the South Side. One is in Washington Park, a 380-acre expanse designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The other, Jackson Park, is on the South Side lakefront… (more)
