With the certainty of a Trump presidential library in our not-too-distant future, it’s a little hard to get worked up over the Obama Presidential Center and Golf Course that’s about to emerge in Jackson Park.
The closings would, however, facilitate the creation of an elite 18-hole championship golf course from the Chicago Park District’s existing Jackson Park and South Shore courses, now separated by Marquette Drive.
That’ll have to be a mega-reduction: the top rate for residents last summer was $33. A cart could be had for an additional $18.
The brick-and-mortar library will be designed by the New York firm of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the same folks responsible for the Logan Center on the University of Chicago campus. On Monday, the Obama Foundation announced that Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, designers of Maggie Daley Park, will be the project’s landscape architect.
