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Emanuel poised to announce plans for land acquisition for presidential library
Posted: 01/02/2015, 08:00pm | Lynn Sweet
WASHINGTON — The Friends of the Parks is cranking up a drive to force disclosure of the University of Chicago’s secret proposals to use Chicago Park District lands for Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum — but the push may be moot as Mayor Rahm Emanuel is poised to seize control and announce a public process for land acquisition in the coming days, I’ve learned.
With both the U of C and the University of Illinois-Chicago bids for the facility in trouble with the Barack Obama Foundation, City Hall — not the U of C — will now be in charge when it comes to getting rights to the sites, I am told.
I’ve also learned that the South Shore Cultural Center is fading as an active U of C option.
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