The Obama library will be run by the National Archives as a 100% digital library, so the facility will now be run privately. This article explains more… http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-obama-center-met-0512-20170511-story.html
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Why? Because Chicago has been such a Republican stronghold? It does not get more Democratic than Chicago South. So, I seriously doubt that this is about partisan politics. Unfortunately, the article offers absolutely nothing regarding the background.
And the Presidential Library 100% digital? That is a truly bad idea. Is that really supposed to mean that there will be no “Library and Museum” for Obama? No place where people can actually go to and visit?? Republicans will rejoice.
The plaintiff organization is a 100% owned botpuppet of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read the mission statement: PORI is specifically dedicated to “business” - this 'concern for preserving100% public access parks is utterly bogus.
It’s also clearly Chicago politics racist in its bent - the whole complaint, despite the egalitarian cover, aims at ‘keeping the “wrong” type of traffic out of “our” park, bearing in mind that the area contiguous to Jackson Park is as close to a gleaming white castle of white on white as one can find there. But at the same time it’s driven by a We Control This Turf property-values angle, so what you end up with is a plaintiff group of whiter than white property value perservists and a legal team that’s been playing at and mostly winning this friggin’ gaming of the city’s zoning system for decades.
Here’s the thing, tho: that this lawsuit is filed in Federal Court is a two times tell on which the plaintiff group really thinks about its ‘value’. They have so little to work with procedurally with how the grant was made that they’ve been diriven to creating a fiction about there being some major categorial differences between the scope of the grant and the ambit of the project. That’s totally bogusity: projects like this are REQUIRED by the city to make public fllings periodically that update the project on any and all advances towards its goal that haven’t previously been described in detail. If the plaintiff group filed this lawsuit in state court, they’d be blown right out of the water right from the start.
So in typical Conservatives Con the Constitution style, as in Bush v Gore, the plaintiffs are trying to invent a constitutional tort.
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They thought they were getting a good deal in the first place when they were going to pay for the fields, not to mention the chance to promote the notion that they had built these fields for all of a Chicago to use — a win/win. But then the POP cranks showed up, and it worked out better than they could have ever hoped. The Park District was really giving a major FU to POP, and Latin ended up being the beneficiary. I haven’t looked closely at the current Jackson Park/Obama museum matter, and I haven’t seen POP’s complaint, but I have every faith that POP will manage to screw themselves and the taxpayers royally again.
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