{"id":1910598,"date":"2023-04-06T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-chicago-residents-say-obama-center-is-pushing-them-out-of-neighborhood\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:16:45","slug":"black-chicago-residents-say-obama-center-is-pushing-them-out-of-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-chicago-residents-say-obama-center-is-pushing-them-out-of-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Chicago Residents Say Obama Center Is Pushing Them Out of Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-chicago-residents-say-obama-center-is-pushing-them-out-of-neighborhood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n\t \t\tBarack Obama breaking ground at the Obama Presidential Center in 2021<br \/>\n\t \t<\/figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/via.placeholder.com\/900x500\" alt=\"Barack Obama breaks ground at the Obama Presidential Center, 2021 (Getty Images)\"><br \/>\n \t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to reports by the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, black families that have been living in Chicago\u2019s South Side area claim that the upcoming museum complex that aims to honor the first black president, Barack Obama, is causing gentrification, resulting in elevated rent prices which are forcing them out of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Presidential Center, whose construction started in 2021, has reportedly displaced long-term black residents because of increasing rent costs. Median rent in the area has increased by 43%, and home values more than doubled since the start of construction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about real people, and we do not want the Obama Center to be another page in the long history of displacing black people or doing harm to black families,&#8221; shared one Chicago resident to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>The $500 million center aims to provide amenities to the South Side such as a library and playground. Landowners see the center as an opportunity to adjust their rent prices, viewing it as a community luxury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This investment, this substantial investment in the South Side will help make the neighborhood, where we call home, a destination for the entire world,&#8221; Michelle Obama expressed during the center\u2019s groundbreaking in 2021. &#8220;But more importantly, this project, as the governor and mayor have said, will be a vital resource for the people who live here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, another resident expressed a different perspective, stating that the Obama Center is not being built exclusively for Chicago but rather for the entire world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama breaks ground at the Obama Presidential Center, 2021 (Getty Images) Chicago residents say the planned museum complex honoring former president Barack Obama is pushing black families in the South Side out of their homes with higher rent costs. The Obama Presidential Center, which began construction in Chicago&#8217;s South Side in 2021, has displaced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1910599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4212,5488,4387,19489,5315,7068,4647],"class_list":["post-1910598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-black","tag-center","tag-chicago","tag-neighborhood","tag-obama","tag-pushing","tag-residents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}