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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