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Plan Commission Greenlights Obama Presidential Center

WTTW-Chicago

There are also three federal reviews that still have to take place. They include processes that fall under the National Historic Preservation Act, the Department of Transportation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

A national parks group called the Cultural Landscape Foundation vows to challenge the Obama center on these issues.

“This project is a precedent-setting move, saying that it’s OK for a former president to take land that had been free and open for 150 years and use it for private purposes,” said the group’s founder, Charles Birnbaum.