Illinois Republicans blast Obama Presidential Library's 'anti-racism' hiring requirements as divisive, arguing the project ...

Obama Presidential Center opens June in Chicago with anti-racism commitment for all hires, contrasting President Donald Trump ...

The Center’s 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park will include a museum devoted to Barack Obama’s presidency, a basketball court, a community garden, and a branch of the Chicago Public Library.

Working out of an old airplane parts factory, the internationally-acclaimed artist Theaster Gates has refused to fit inside a ...

Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda Del Valle performed her recent work celebrating Chicago while also critiquing its political ...

After contacting KING 5 in 2023, a local woman learned her photos of her mother with Barack Obama's mother will be displayed ...

Recently, former President Barack Obama paid a visit to the Bessie Coleman Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Sitting before a group of elementary school students, he read How Bessie ...

1994: Former child stars Danny Bonaduce and Donny Osmond participated in a charity boxing match at the China Club. The idea started on Jonathon Brandmeier’s WLUP-FM radio show when Brandmeier goaded ...

The CEO of the Obama Foundation offered an inside look at the former president's controversial presidential library, addressing lingering concerns over its design. The monumental project in Chicago is ...

Mayda Alexandra del Valle will serve a two-year term and receive $70,000 to commission new works and create public programming. As Chicago’s second poet laureate, del Valle will serve as an ambassador ...

Before Jan. 20, 2025, I lived under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, and Obama, whom I admired, and under Nixon and George ...