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NBC Chicago got a sneak peek Wednesday inside the sprawling Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, offering a first look at a venue that will feature a full-sized basketball court, a Chicago Public Library branch, acres of green space and a museum dedicated to Barack Obama’s years in the White House.⁠ ⁠ "It is a living, breathing legacy, because our hope is that people bring change back to their communities," Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said in an interview with NBC News.⁠ ⁠ The campus, located at 6001 S. Stony Island Ave. on the South Side, officially opens to the public on Juneteenth, more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project. But tens of thousands of people — friends and family of museum staff, students and journalists — have already been offered a sneak peek at the nearly 20-acre campus as crews finish final art installations and landscaping.⁠ ⁠ Museum officials said the campus is expected to draw as many as one million visi...

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