Obama Presidential Center Opens in Chicago Amid Fanfare and Criticism Over Brutalist Design

Obama Presidential Center Opens in Chicago Amid Fanfare and Criticism Over Brutalist Design

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago opened to the public on the Juneteenth holiday Friday, following plenty of controversy over its “audacious” brutalist design. The striking complex in the Jackson Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, which cost an estimated $850 million to build, documents and celebrates Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure as the country’s 44th
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