Wishful Thinking?
We're sensing a bunch of disappointment on the horizon:
The Obama Presidential Center's grand opening is less than one month away.
The museum and library are expected to bring tourists to the city, and businesses near the center are expecting a big boost. ABC7 spoke to business owners who say more customers means more jobs for Chicagoans.
In the shadow of the Obama Center, many on the South Side are eager for that promised economic boost. A beautification project in Woodlawn is among the new jobs for MGE Property Solutions. The owner, Malki Brown, told ABC7 that with more development happening around the Obama Center, they are getting more clients and hiring more workers.
These "expected" impacts never last much longer than a few years, if that. Americans have notoriously short memories and Chicagoans even shorter ones. The only way this thing makes money is forced field trips by CPS and suburban schools for a few years, maybe a few political fundraisers or left-wing conventions.
Supposedly, they haven't even funded the endowment that's going to cover regular maintenance and grounds-keeping so Chicago and Illinois taxpayers will be tagged for that soon. Taxes will kill the rest of it.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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SCC, you are on point. The powers that be will likely force CPS schools to arrange field trips to the Obama Center. Also, I suspect local colleges and universities will be "persuaded" to make trips there as part of freshman orientation and/or work for history classes and political science classes.
Airline tickets are double in price from last year, & gas is over $5/gal with no dip in sight. Don’t be expecting any kind of tourism boom anywhere in the US this summer… especially not to a city which routinely has, what, 1,800 people shot a year?
It's nothing but a tall, ugly buffoon of a building much like the person it honors.
Force field trips only to drive past the abomination. The entrance fees are not affordable besides, most hate him and wouldn't bother wasting time to see it.
What if the boost doesn’t come!
It’s going to be a perfect tribute to that presidential parasite. Over promised, under delivered.
Woo hoo hyped up nonsense for some one who did squat in 2 terms
I’m sure that there will be more jobs in the crime sector, more people/folks getting robbed and shot!!!
Well...I know 2 customers for sure will attend the opening. My idiot brother-in-law and idiot sister-in-law. They still worship the LIGHTBRINGER...SMH
The Obama gift that keeps on taking
Drove past it the other day, surprisingly much smaller than it would seem from its pictures !
Newsflash - not a whole lot of businesses left to “benefit” from the visitors, or discretionary spending possible from those that do.
The Morloks will go. They are called to against their will.
MCC South
If I'm not mistaken I remember hearing they were looking for several hundred unpaid volunteers to work in Sparklefarts' little play house. I don't call that an economic boom.
WARNING. DANGER. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OF 1961 IS REPEATING ITSELF.
OT - but talk about left-wing funding. Neville Roy "No Billionaires" Singham comes running from Shanghai with a fresh billion to support Cuba...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-treasury-investigate-nonprofits-leaders-allegedly-coordinating-cuba-influence-campaign
BREAKING: Cuba’s 300-Drone Arsenal Near U.S. Coast Sparks Fears of Iran-Russia Strike Network Just 145km From America
Classified intelligence reports alleging Cuba acquired more than 300 attack drones from Iran and Russia are raising strategic concerns that low-cost asymmetric warfare capabilities could now emerge within only 145km of American territory
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/cuba-300-drone-arsenal-iran-russia-guantanamo-us-florida-threat/?lang=en
It would make a nice grain silo.
I didn't know that a building could be afflicted by Peyronie's disease until I saw this beaut in person. It's a fine tribute to all bent dicks around the country.
What is the matter with you? Don’t you see? That is the economic boost to the community.
Im sure the tour will end up inside the gift shop where overpriced baubles and trinkets will be for sale. I guarantee it.
I might go after eating some spicy Mexican food then leave a steaming mess in the unflushed John on"Free" day, I'm not paying to enter.
Basically this center along with Obama are 2 big failures and scams put onto the taxpayers
My solution learned in my youth at government expense:
"Up two, right one, fire for effect,"
well said
Valerie Jarrett earned $740K as Obama insiders filled top roles during $850M presidential center build
Longtime Obama confidante's salary exceeds leaders at Bush, Carter, Reagan and Clinton foundations
The Obama Foundation — which will operate the 19.3-acre center on publicly owned Chicago parkland — paid its CEO more than any other major presidential foundation. Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million.
"Illinois Democrats are truly living their best lives — making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help design the ugliest building in Chicago," Illinois GOP Chairman Kathy Salvi told Fox News.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/valerie-jarrett-earned-740k-as-obama-insiders-filled-top-roles-during-850m-presidential-center-build
asking for a friend ; Is Obama's original birth certificate going to be on display ? His college records under his original name ?
This is going to be a bust! Horrible location, horrible president. Park you car, will be broken into, if you walk around , you will be robbed.
Illinois state prisons are already planning on bus trips for their inmates to boost the attendance of the obummer center
The ugly on the outside is a good metaphor for the ugly on the inside of sparklefarts.
Toxic narcissism.
Maybe a new route for the Bud Billiken parade is in the works. Wouldn’t it be great if the parade ended there?
Ask the federal agents who had their cases shit canned because the new sheriff in town didn’t want to go after the impoverished folks/people. He set law enforcement back twenty years and just when you think things were going to get better the George Floyd fiasco appears. Impossible to do this job anymore.
That neighborhood will never change until the progressives who try and force their ideas on everyone else actually move in and start spending their money and opening more businesses.
Funny, thats exactly what Michelle said
I've thought all along that after the initial fanfare lasting a year or two that half the traffic going through there will be CPS field trips on the taxpayers dime
Schools were the largest buyers of his book as I recall....
someone please point a live feed camera at it. Let AI count the visitors.
Out here in Dupage, $30 buys a nice lunch, and my car will be where I parked it.
$$$
General admission to the Obama Presidential Center museum is$30 for adults (12+) and $23 for children (ages 3–11).
Free admission to Illinois pre-K through 12th-grade educators, active-duty military, veterans, Chicago first responders, and those with an EBT or WIC card.
12+ is an adult? They allow them to vote in that neighborhood.
The uranium and Iran will be used to indict Obama for treason. What happens to the ugly building then?
And in a couple of years Chicago/Illinois taxpayers will be footing the bill for this piece of shit. It will then be sold to the county/ Feds for use as a new prison facility...
looks like an old nazi flak tower
Will there be a designated place for the boys to play away on their plastic buckets? How about the kids selling water or candy? Entrepreneurship. That’s the answer.
Can you use EBT cards for the entry fee??? Asking for a friend!
Two squats: Term one - Gates. Term two - Brown.
I like that MCC South
Did someone tell Walgreens?
Stolen land
I bought an abandoned lot by 71st and Jeffrey with my PPP loan. I will rent out parking spaces to the ill informed
yea, then they can celebrate 2 fake heroes
Parents can opt out. They tried to take my kids to Garfield park conservatory and I said a big no. When they asked why I told them what they did not want to hear, dude guns and stray
Rounds through a school bus window full of white kids going to the uber violent west side of chicago.
The best is going to be when they drag the CPD promotional classes through the Barry center of hate and division as part of their training.
New fto, detectives, sgt’s, LT, captains, commanders, deputy chiefs, etc dragged through Obama hate and division center for reeducation of the masses.
Think they will have a display of the traffic stop study card?
Hyde park is jammed with white liberals you speak of. It’s quite an integrated hood with lots of new development. Huge building boom on 51st and 55th street.
The Venezuelan woman took those jobs.
Concrete work was worse than some stations... gotta be torn down entirely. No prison reuse there... unless Granny is running it and they're all escaping through holes in the wall.
They are gonna charge for midnight basketball there to help with the costs. So us taxpayers will not have to pay anything
I wonder if they will be selling Blagojevich wigs in obummers gift shop.
Democratic Socialists Of America and their overall brand of "tolerance" - put a flag in your yard for Memorial Day and you may be killed.
Elderly Man Left In Hospital Over US And Trump-Themed Decorations At Home, Wife Says
Kerry Sheron was allegedly attacked shortly after 2 p.m. in Escondido, according to CBS 8. The Escondido Police Department (EPD) responded and discovered him seriously hurt and lying in the street. Sheron was hospitalized in critical condition as of Thursday, according to NBC San Diego. Maria Garcia, Sheron’s wife, said she suspects the attack may have been prompted by the political display outside her and her husband’s home, CBS 8 reported.
“They don’t like the flags. I don’t know why. I support America. My husband is [a] veteran,” Garcia said.
Garcia said her husband, 69, is not anticipated to survive following the alleged attack, according to The California Post. Butler’s friend identified him as a Navy veteran suffering from “severe PTSD,” the outlet reported Thursday...
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/22/elderly-man-attacked-pro-us-trump-decorations-hospital-california/
"I bought an abandoned lot by 71st and Jeffrey with my PPP loan. I will rent out parking spaces to the ill informed
5/24/2026 02:16:46 PM"
Probably my old doctor's office from when I was a kid.
"Ill-informed" is right. Worth your life to visit there now.
Used to look like this -
https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2023/03/jeffery-theater-1952-east-71st-chicago-illinois.html
https://chuckmanchicagonostalgia.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/71st-street-at-jeffery-1950s-hugh-celandar-photo/
Hope these links work.
I sure hope my depends doesn't burst when I walk through.
Parents need to stop singing permission slips for these indoctrination events.
The libs will use all this as the cause if numbers are low the first year.
I expect numbers to be ok as the tomb is a curiosity, I figure interest will fade gradually.
Hopefully people read real reviews and not the lib propaganda about the community center.
By the way, this tower of turd isn’t going to motivate new business to the ghetto.
Bwahahahahahaha
😆👍
May God help and bless you for dealing with the knucklehead clueless off the clock
Jerky lives in the building at Chicago and Michigan. She was on the condo board and destroyed that building, along with any owner who had a legitimate building issue. Heinous.
How many homes do the Obama’s have? Where are they situated? What is the demographic of the areas they have homes in? When is the last time they “lived” in Chicago? Are they still getting millions and millions as Netflix “producers”? Who is paying for the maintenance, upkeep, salaries, etc of the
Citadel that is the Presidential library that contains no official Presidential papers or memorabilia? Just curious wants to know.
I hope it does 😁
700k annual visitors 🤣🤣
Only if they are handing out free turkeys
Hence, credit to Obama for bringing about reparations after his term in office was over. Yes, I have a degree in journalism./sarc
"unpaid workers" sounds a lot like slavery to me.......
Did Tony Rezko help the Obama's pick up any of the flak tower's real estate again, just for nostalgia's sake?
4:23 - Seriously. Hyde Park is the only booming neighborhood of the entire southside… which is why it makes no sense Barack & Michelle fought so hard to have their vanity temple built in that landmark park. They could’ve chose the old abandoned lakefront steelmill site instead, & singlehandedly revitalized Pullman.
But that sounds too much like work, doesn’t it?
Perhaps the new Obama Presidential Library could be sold to the same outfit that bought the parking meters revenue stream!
Those white docents that got let go from the museum will be encouraged to apply!
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