A lawsuit filed Monday claims the City of Chicago colluded with Barack Obama in “a short con shell game” to help the former president construct his postmodern museum and library on the city’s South Side. (Fox News)
Protect Our Parks filed the lawsuit Monday seeking to block construction of the Obama Presidential Center in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, where a young Obama cut his political teeth.
Established law precludes the Chicago Park District from transferring public parkland in Jackson Park to a private non-governmental entity for its own use, the lawsuit claims.
“Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way, known as a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab, one that will endure for centuries to come, regardless of future changing public park needs and increasingly consequential environmental conditions,” according to the lawsuit.
The Chicago Sun-Times also quotes the lawsuit as saying that it is seeking a court order barring construction because it views the land transfer as an “institutional bait and switch.”
In reaction to the suit, Mayor Rahm Emanuel – former Obama White House Chief of Staff – reiterated his belief that the Obama Presidential Center is a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to revitalize the blighted neighborhood and honor the 45th president’s legacy.
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