Former President Obama was in the Windy City to check on the progress of the nearly finished Barack Obama Presidential Library. Former President Barack Obama made a holiday pop-up visit to a Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bids for the future home of the Obama Presidential Library were due Monday. For now, there is no public money available to help attract the library to Chicago, as five competitors ...

Barack Obama is facing the wrath of the internet over his non-traditional presidential library being erected in Chicago. Internet users likened the looming, concrete and granite building to something ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A federal judge has denied a request to halt construction on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park after a Chicago park advocacy group filed a new federal lawsuit. On Thursday ...

CHICAGO, May 12 (Reuters) - Barack Obama's presidential library will be built in his hometown of Chicago, the Obama Foundation announced on Tuesday. Chicago beat out proposals by New York City and ...

A group of Chicago elementary school students had an unexpected visitor Tuesday when former President Barack Obama walked in wearing a Santa hat and sat down to read to them. The Burke Elementary ...

Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy? That’s a question US President Barack Obama will soon answer when he and First Lady Michelle Obama announce ...

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago plans to proudly include artifacts from throughout the former president’s life and ...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to use parkland as a site for Barack Obama's presidential library received a boost when the Chicago Park District gave its approval. The University of Chicago's ...

President Obama will not name the location for his future presidential library until after Chicago’s April 7 runoff mayoral election out of concern that an earlier announcement could politicize his ...