Obama foundation to name Chicago home of presidential library on May 12

Source: Chicago Sun Times

WASHINGTON — The Sun-Times has learned that the Barack Obama Foundation will announce on May 12 that the Obama library, museum and presidential center will be in Chicago.

Multiple sources confirmed on Monday that the Chicago-based Obama Foundation, led by Obama friend Marty Nesbitt, is planning an announcement event a week from Tuesday.

The announcement will be made on the South Side, the home of the winning bidder, the University of Chicago, and will cap a process that started on Jan. 31, 2014, when the foundation was created.


The first bid documents were released on March 20, 2014, with the field cut on June 17 to four finalists: the U. of C., the University of Illinois at Chicago, with sites proposed on the West Side; the University of Hawaii in Honolulu; and Columbia University in New York. The four schools submitted bids on Dec. 11.

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