Visiting Chicago's Obama Presidential Center: Everything you need to know including hours, how to get there

The long-awaited Obama Presidential Center opens to the public in Chicago on June 19, 2026. Here's everything you need to ...

A first look inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center

The Obama Presidential Center isn’t just a library, but a sprawling campus designed by the architects Tod Williams and Billie ...
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Obama Center Library Branch Opens Juneteenth With Obama-Themed Library Cards To Match

Park District officials also celebrated the opening of a playground on the Midway Plaisance this week, built as part of an agreement to replace recreational space lost to the center.

Obama Presidential Library set to open in southside Chicago | Morning in America

The Obama Presidential Library is set to open in a few days. The center has faced some backlash from Chicago's southside ...

Barack Obama’s goal for his library: ‘I want them to put my presidency in context’

Barack Obama is expressing his hopes for what his presidential library in Chicago will achieve for his legacy, in an interview with Stephen Colbert.

ABC7 gets sneak peek at new Chicago Public Library branch on Obama Presidential Center campus

The branch has a Presidential Reading Room with 3,000 books personally chosen by the Obamas and a few from the former ...