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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.'"
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A visit by anyone to the “Tower of Bable”,
is by any measurement a waste of time and lots of money. It will be a monumental disaster
they still have not received the maintenance funds necessary to keep it from
looking like the structures in Cuba which are
falling to pieces. The drain on Chicago to
pay for upkeep will be in the millions.
They may wish to change it into a barbecue
smoke house.
Good Luck.
Bring an ID !!! Can’t get in without one . Also the RESERVE FUND ID INADEQUATELY FUNDED . This means CHIRAQ will be responsible to make up the difference.
They’ll force every school kid in the metro area to do a field trip here paid for by the parents or tax payers, the democrat way.
Make admission free, charge $300 a head, it really doesn’t matter. The taxpayers will be on the hook for this Soviet Russian inspired edifice to Obama on land confiscated from taxpayers no matter how busy it is .
What interesting exhibits will people want to see? A basketball court? Compare that to exhibits at the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute, and Science and Industry. Will anyone go back for multiple visits?
I really believe they are overplaying this museum. I don’t believe it’s the draw they expect. A wimpy president who had no real major accomplishments, is not one to make vacation plans around
Spray paint vendors I bet will be excited…