Chicago Home for Obama Library

摘要

After 14 months of deliberations, the Barack Obama Foundation (BOF) chose the University of Chicago to host the Barack Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on Chicago's South Side. The finalists, se-lected from among 13 applicants in Sep-tember 2014, were New York's Columbia University, the University of Hawaii (UH), the University of Chicago (UC), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The proposed center will include the presidential library, museum, and office space for BOF and is anticipated to cost upward of $500 million. The precise location has not been chosen; the OPC will either be built on a 20-acre site in Jackson Park or a 21-acre site in Washington Park. The sites are both near Hyde Park, the Obamas' home before their move to Washington - one just to the south and the other, the west.