CHICAGO | Obama Presidential Library

[i_am_kyry]

The Washington Park site is far superior to the Jackson Park site, IMO. Jackson has far less 'passive' park space and the immediate surroundings don't offer the adjacent vacant land to build the auxiliary amenities to the library, plus the Green stopping pretty much on site. Such as, the library itself, will be on the actual park space, and the rest will fill that land west of MLK. Plus, I dig that the library will pair nicely with the DuSable across the park to make a foundational African American History Campus. A nice first gesture by the foundation would be the build a new Dyatt HS a few blocks west on 51st and return the current land back to original park space.

But, ya know, wishful thinking...