Letter: Obama Foundation, lend a hand in migrant crisis – Hyde Park Herald
January 20, 2024
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“The Barack Obama Foundation purports to be empowering new generation of ‘community organizers’, here in Chicago and around the world. Let Chicago’s migrant crisis be their classroom, their laboratory, their trial by fire. There is no better experience available. And there is no better way for the Obama Presidential Center to gain much-sought-after credibility here in Hyde Park, in Chicago, and around the country.”
It’s a common sense step that was long overdue and had bipartisan support. Pritzker’s Friday statement on the court decision only called the law “meaningful reform.” That’s progress on two fronts: A good bill and an appropriately modest description.
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“Getting people back downtown … is a hard economic necessity for this city,” said a source who has seen the plan. “They’re going to come downtown because there’s stuff to do. … This is a massive step toward that.” Many questions remain, including how much Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf would be willing to contribute and how much public financing would be needed — given that demand for public resources is high, and public appetite for bankrolling stadiums is low.