Chicago community leaders and longtime residents say the Obama Presidential Center risks washing away the neighborhood’s fabric, warning that proposed luxury developments tied to the project could price out families who have long called the South Side home, according to a report.

They also say the sprawling 19.3-acre site in historic Jackson Park, with its 225-foot-tall concrete museum, has become an eyesore that disrupts the natural landscape and all locals are getting in return for the unsightly structure is soaring rents and higher tax bills.

“This is a monument to one man’s ego,” Steve Cortes, a longtime Chicagoan and former advisor to President Donald Trump, told the Daily Mail . “Look at the Reagan Library. It’s beautiful. This? There are almost no windows. What are they hiding

See Full Page