Column: A visit to soon-to-open Obama center won’t exactly be cheap – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "The $30 cost of admission is the highest of these homages to former presidents, but just $1 more than former President Nixon’s library in Yorba Linda, Calif. But there’s more expenses than just admission costs, as The Wall Street Journal recently noted. There are sky-high hotel taxes for out-of-town visitors, plus sky-high parking rates and sky-high rates on anything else one can name in a city that, as the Journal described, is 'known for complex and costly urban development, steep taxes and premium cultural attractions.'"