{"id":827590,"date":"2021-09-29T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=827590"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:14:30","slug":"500m-obama-library-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/500m-obama-library-draws-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"$500M Obama library draws criticism"},"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\">10<\/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%2F500m-obama-library-draws-criticism%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=827590&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--><div id=\"attachment_2534257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2534257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this May 3, 2017 file photo, former President Barack Obama points as he arrives at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Former President Barack Obama\u2019s presidential center will move another step closer to its brick-and-mortar future when ground is broken next week after years of reviews, other delays and local opposition. (AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:17 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Barack Obama is facing backlash for his $500 million presidential library in Chicago. The former president and first lady, Michelle, broke ground on the library in Jackson Park on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have argued the construction will destroy the historic park and gentrify south Chicago. However, Obama believes the library will serve as a unifying point for the city during chaotic times.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201c\u2026we think it can speak to some of the most central struggles of our time,\u201d stated Obama. \u201cWe are living through a moment of rapid disruption, in technology, in the global economy, in our social arrangements and in our environment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An advocacy group known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectourparks.org\/\">Protect Our Parks <\/a>went all the way to Supreme Court in an effort to halt the construction of Obama\u2019s library. It argued that the project, in fact, violated environmental laws. The group also pointed out construction would demolish \u201chistorical resources, parkland and trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe truth is any time you do a big project, unless you\u2019re in the middle of a field somewhere, you know, and it\u2019s on private property, there\u2019s always going to be some people who say, \u2018Well, but we don\u2019t want change. We\u2019re worried about it. We don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to turn out,\u2019\u201d said Obama in defense of his library.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The library, which the former president has insisted will inspire future generations, is expected to be finished in 2025.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/holes-in-bidens-zero-price-tag-promise\/\">Holes In Biden\u2019s \u201cZero\u201d Price Tag Promise<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this May 3, 2017 file photo, former President Barack Obama points as he arrives at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827590","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}