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No tower of glower: Obama Center and its maligned signature building are worthy of consideration – Chicago Sun-Times
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Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
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Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Leave it to the Sun-Times to have a positive review.
If Jackson Park’s renowned landscape architects (Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux) knew what Chicago would one day do to their design, they never would have set foot in Chicago.
It does look like a prison. Fitting for the area. Trump should propose stopping this nonsensical custom.
ID required to purchase a ticket
I thought it was Jim Crow laws that make you need an ID.
Need an ID to purchase tickets !!
Need an ID TO PURCHASE A TICKET AND ENTER !!! Guess it will never be a polling place to VOTE IN!!
Lee Bay was was once considered a respected architecture critic.
But with this butt-kissing love letter to the hideous Obama Monstrosity, that reputation is flushed.
Looks like a prison, where Obama belongs!
I should not have read that after eating dinner. Calling this one of the best urban spaces in the city, perhaps second to Millennium Park is crazy.
They didn’t really spend $750 million on this monstrosity, did they? It is a joke, right? If his legacy as president doesn’t sentence him to the top of the list of worst presidents ever ( although he still has to compete with Carter and Biden), this grotesque waste of money will put the final stamp on the title.
Nope 850MILLION