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Sources say that, after a year of debate and 13 possible locations, President Obama’s future presidential library will be at the University of Chicago. We’ve not yet received official confirmation from the President, the White House, or the Obama Foundation. But the President did call Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week to thamk him for pushing through paperwork to allow for the library to be built on city park property. The official announcement should be made in the next few weeks. There was a delay because Mayor Emanuel was forced into a run off to hold on to his job.
The other contenders were the University of Hawaii, in the state where the President was born, and Columbia University in New York, where the President studied. According to the Chicago Tribune, Hawaii has already been taken out of the running, and will instead house something that speaks to the President’s roots in that state.
The library could be in West Harlem if there’s an unexpected twist and it comes to the Big Apple.
The University of Chicago is located in the South Side of the city, where the First Lady is from. And it’s where the President taught and launched his political career. So there are deep roots there as well.
There has been some opposition to using public land for the library, but that looks to have been defeated.
