CHICAGO (WLS) -- Work on the Obama Presidential Center continues to move along in Chicago's Jackson Park.

It is expected to open next year, but there are still questions about how it will impact the neighboring community.

On Wednesday, a Chicago City Council committee voted on a revised proposal to prevent residents being priced out of South Side communities by the Obama Center.

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With the Obama Center due to open next year, the area around the Jackson Park complex is changing as well.

On Thursday, revisions to an ordinance that had languished was brought to City Council's Housing & Real Estate Committee.

The amendment to the proposed South Shore Housing Opportunity Ordinance reported to aldermen that since 2015, rents have gone

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