Ronald Reagan’s home will not be leveled for Obama library

Ronald Reagan’s home will not be leveled for Obama library

If you saw Fox Nation, Mediaite or the Washington Times recently, you may be under the impression that Ronald Reagan’s childhood home is being paved for Obama’s parking lot.

But not exactly. The original report, published on an unedited, community-generated section of WashingtonTimes.com, alleged that the University of Chicago was demolishing and paving over Reagan’s boyhood home. The report further claimed that the parking lot could one day serve Obama’s presidential library.

If anyone had bothered Googling the rumors or the report’s author, they would have found plenty of room for doubt. For starters, the apartment in question was not “Reagan’s childhood Chicago home,” as the Daily Mail phrases it, but a house he lived in for a few months between the ages of three and four, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

And while the University of Chicago does plan to bulldoze the building, the university will use the space to expand its medical and biological research campus. The school bought the building in 2004, long before Barack Obama became a household name, and has planned to expand since 2010, two years before Obama expressed interest in a library.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/04/ronald-reagans-home-will-not-be-leveled-for-obama-library/