Gary T. Johnson

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Martin Nesbitt, left, chairman of the Obama Foundation, announce on May 12, 2015, that Chicago will be the home of Obama's presidential library and museum.

In ever-evolving Jackson Park, there is room for the Obama center

May 31, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

Over its 181-year history, Chicago has maintained its reputation as one of the world's grandest cities by always changing — evolving, improving. We took a quaint carriage road next to...

Chicago's parks and museums, including Grant Park and Museum Campus, have been going together since 1893.

Chicago’s history of museums in the parks

May 25, 2019 at 6:03 p.m.

The possibility of locating the Barack Obama presidential library in Jackson Park or Washington Park is a good time to review the history of museums in Chicago's parks. Attracting museums...

NO TWO TEXANS

August 10, 2021 at 5:30 a.m.

Your editorial reference to James Baker as one vice presidential possibility bumps up against the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Assuming Baker and President Bush both are from Texas,...

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