Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen will lead a bill of music heavyweights in Chicago on Tuesday 18 June, as Barack Obama formally opens the Obama Presidential Center on the city's South Side, the Obama Foundation has confirmed. The grand opening ceremony, livestreamed from noon ET, will launch a Juneteenth‑weekend programme that the foundation bills as a celebration of 'the values that shaped the Obama presidency.'
The political sniping over the $850 million project, which Trump has repeatedly derided as a 'total disaster' on social media. The 19‑acre campus, years in the making and fiercely debated in Chicago, is set to operate not as a traditional presidential library but as a multi‑use civic hub with community spaces, sports facilities, a public library branch and a paid‑entry museum.
