Construction continues, as Obama Foundation has its best fundraising year yet, with assets near $1 billion – Chicago Tribune*

As of the start of July, concrete work for the museum building’s elevator and stairwell reached the 3rd floor, where the eventual Oval Office replica will be. Floor slabs for other buildings that will make up the campus were mostly in place last month. The city fully closed Cornell Drive along the eastern side earlier this summer to be permanently converted into green space, the latest in a series of roadway changes and transportation improvement projects in and around historic Jackson Park.