Obama Presidential Center Goes to Federal Review

That point was echoed by Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation: “Altogether the confiscation of 20-plus acres for the Obama Presidential Center, golf course consolidation and expansion, new roads, impacts on the lakefront, loss of historic trees, and a parking garage at the Midway, result in a massive adverse effect on the National Register of Historic Places–designated park,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times.