The Obama Center is sure to disappoint – Letter – Chicago Tribune

"My concerns are now heightened after we’ve learned that Obama’s library will not be an official governmental “presidential library” at all. Instead, it will be a private 'presidential center,' and will not house the textual documents, artifacts and audio-visual materials.... Taxpayers now will have to bear the cost of having the federal government’s National Archives and Records Administration organize, store and make these materials available elsewhere." "What Chicago will be left with is a mini-Disneyland/Obamaland structure — built on free land given to the Obamas for, essentially, a multimillion-dollar, ego-driven project not unlike film director George Lucas’ proposed museum — filled with things that Obama thought were cool and that he wished to place near Chicago’s lakefront."