Chicago Council Backs Obama Presidential Center Plans

The effort to build the Obama Presidential Center in a park on Chicago's South Side where Barack Obama's political career began cleared its biggest hurdle yet Wednesday when the City Council signed off on the proposal. The vote was widely expected but was still historic for both the city where the nation's first black president started and for the state where the only presidential library is that of the president who freed the slaves. In recent days, the city's...

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