Obama Foundation formally announces library’s Chicago site

TIL Desk World/Chicago/ The Obama Foundation has formally announced that Chicago’s Jackson Park will be home to Barack Obama’s presidential library.

“Michelle and I are thrilled that the Obama Presidential Center will be developed in the heart of Chicago’s South Side, a community we call home and that means the world to us,” the president said in a statement yesterday.

“With a center in Jackson Park, not only will we be able to affect local change, but we can attract the world to this historic neighborhood, whose rich cultural heritage dates back to the 1893 World’s Fair.”The location, near the Museum of Science and Industry, beat an alternative site about a mile west in Washington Park. It’s also about 2 miles from the Obamas’ residence in the Hyde Park neighborhood.