Former President Barack Obama isn’t making any new fans with his $830 million presidential library project on the South Side of Chicago.

Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the majority-Black, working-class neighborhood that surrounds the Obama site, told the Daily Mail that she fears that local residents will no longer be able to afford to live in the area.

“Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for. This was no different, and we’re living what is actually happening,” said Taylor, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. “We’re going to see rents go higher and we’re going to see families displaced.”

Residents have pointed to a proposed 250-room luxury hotel that is a planned part of th

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