The Chicago Plan Commission approved on Thursday a plan by a veteran developer to plant a 26-story hotel several blocks south of the Obama Presidential Center, now under construction in Woodlawn.

The $100 million tower at 6402 S. Stony Island Ave. will fill in vacant lots, provide badly needed jobs to Woodlawn residents, and help ensure some of the money spent by the Obama center’s thousands of annual visitors stays in the community, said Allison Davis, the lawyer and developer who has owned the property for years.

“They’ve got to stay somewhere, because they will come from all over the country and the world to see this magnificent addition to the South Side,” Davis told commission members. “What I’m trying to do is go places other people don’t go and make the neighborhood better, and th

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