Don't call it a library. The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened with huge fanfare last week in a park near the shore of Lake Michigan, but critics say what the public thinks is a library will ...

Barack and Michelle Obama helped open the Obama Presidential Center’s new public library by putting books in front of children first. On Friday, June 19, the former president and first lady surprised ...

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama surprised Hyde Park elementary students at the Obama Presidential Center’s public library on Friday morning, just ahead of the doors ...

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CNN gets inside look at $850 million Obama Presidential Library Link Copied! The Obama Presidential Library holds a grand opening ceremony on June 18th. CNN's Jeff Zeleny has an inside look at the new ...

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With the Obama Presidential Center set to open in just a few days on Juneteenth, HPR attended an exclusive preview to learn the story behind the center and to highlight its ties to Hawaiʻi. The vast ...

More than a decade after it was first announced, the Obama Presidential Center and Library officially opens to the public in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 19, 2026. The expansive 20-acre campus is ...

The Obama Presidential Center, which opens to the public on Friday, on Juneteenth, hugs the north end of Jackson Park, runs alongside a lagoon, rises 225 feet at its highest, and rolls backward down ...

The Obama Presidential Center’s unrelenting marketing campaign and weekslong soft opening have inspired an avalanche of opinions and emotions. For me, one feature rises above all: the new Obama ...