Small margin separates candidates in 5th Ward with future of Obama Center a key issue in the race By A.D. Quig April 5, 2023 at 2:47 a.m. In yet another Chicago City Council race heralding a changing of the guard, two candidates...
2023 Chicago aldermanic candidates answer Tribune questionnaire: Jeanette B. Taylor By Chicago Tribune February 7, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. To inform voters and to help the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board make endorsements, the board...
Editorial: Our choices for City Council: Wards 1-6 By The Editorial Board February 8, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. The faces of Chicago's City Council are changing. Around a quarter of Chicago's 50 wards...
Neighborhood pride competes with gentrification fears for Woodlawn residents coping with Obama Center traffic woes By William Lee November 20, 2022 at 4:20 p.m. When the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase...
Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Why are we even building an Obama Center? He didn’t do anything special’ By Lake County News-Sun November 14, 2022 at 6:48 p.m. Editor's note Talk of the County is a reader-generated column of opinions. If you see...
Voters oppose cutting down thousands of trees in Jackson Park and South Shore for Obama Center, golf project By Post-Tribune November 13, 2022 at 7:46 p.m. Residents of Chicago's South Side overwhelmingly voted to oppose the removal of thousands of trees...
Work halted at Obama Presidential Center after noose is found By A.D. Quig November 11, 2022 at 5:12 p.m. Foundation officials are condemning a "shameless act of cowardice and hate" at the site of...
Salaries for top staffers at Obama Foundation are outpacing their counterparts at other presidential centers By A.D. Quig September 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Even before Barack Obama left the White House, plans to build his presidential center in...
Obama Presidential Center makes progress in building talent pipeline from South and West Side, report shows By Darcel Rockett August 26, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. Mamon Powers Jr. always envisioned being in business because that's how he grew up, surrounded...
Investor buys another affordable housing property, this time next to the Obama Center By Brian J. Rogal August 5, 2022 at 12:09 a.m. A New York City-based investor with a growing affordable housing portfolio snapped up another Chicago...