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Trump slams Obama for using ‘woke’ construction workers for his presidential library

Trump says Obama ‘didn't use good, hard, tough, mean construction workers that I love’

The Independent UK

Halfway built, the Obama Presidential Center is already a South Side landmark

The signature tower at the Obama Presidential Center, under construction in Jackson Park, already looms over the community. It will house the museum dedicated to the former president.

Chicago Sun-Times

International recognition for social entrepreneur from Vijayawada Tarun Cherukuri

Tarun Cherukuri, a Vijayawada resident, has been selected as one of 11 Ashoka Aspire-2023 cohorts. A Harvard Kennedy School grad, Obama Foundation Fellow and DRK Foundation Entrepreneur, Tarun is committed to creating impact at scale. Through Indus Action, he is helping vulnerable Indian families access legislated benefits.

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Bill Gates joins 26 newcomers on list of 50 biggest donors

As the ranks of America’s super wealthy grow, the roster of major philanthropists is expanding to include not-so-typical megadonors — among them, a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court

The Independent UK

Police union vies for power on oversight councils, UIC faculty union strikes and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Obama Foundation volunteerism on MLK Day makes comeback after COVID hiatus

Music pumped through the South Side YMCA gym as members of the community got to work preparing meals, making birthday cards for seniors, planting seeds and packaging self-care kits for people in need.

Chicago Sun-Times

Yes, they can? Springfield pays long-awaited tribute to Obama’s historic White House launch: ‘History doesn’t always move quickly’

The new historic marker stands outside the Old State Capitol, where then Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential bid on a brutally cold February day in 2007 —but unlike Obama, Pritzker and the others who unveiled the marker on Wednesday made their remarks indoors.

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Neighborhood pride competes with gentrification fears for residents coping with Obama Center traffic woes in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood

CHICAGO — When the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase last month, South Shore resident Jane Carson said she took the longer bus rides home in stride because she knew it was for the greater good: a grand community space dedicated to the…

Chicago Tribune

Obama to announce expansion of young leaders program to US

An Obama Foundation program that has trained hundreds of young leaders across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe is being expanded to include the United States

The Independent UK

Construction of Obama presidential library halted after noose found in ‘act of hate’

Reward of $100,000 has been offered to identify those responsible for planting noose

The Independent UK

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Supreme Justice Barrett refuses again to block Biden’s student-debt relief plan

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Judge rules against group suing to stop Obama Presidential Center

CHICAGO — The long-waged fight by the group Protect Our Parks to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s Jackson Park museum and campus has reached the end of the road in the federal district courts. But the plaintiffs plan to take the case to the appellate level, continuing a…

Chicago Tribune

Barack, Michelle Obama vote early in Chicago

President Obama joked that he missed the days when voters could ‘punch’ a ballot for straight-ticket voting.

Chicago Sun-Times

Salaries for top staffers at Obama Foundation are outpacing their counterparts at other presidential centers

CHICAGO — Even before Barack Obama left the White House, plans to build his presidential center in Jackson Park were met with resistance as nearby residents feared the center’s very existence would drive up costs in an area the former president says he wants to uplift.

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Obama Presidential Center makes progress in building talent pipeline from South and West Side residents, report shows

CHICAGO — Mamon Powers, Jr. always envisioned being in business because that’s how he grew up, being surrounded by businessmen in the home and the community. But then again by the time he was 15, he was running his own carpentry crew on construction sites.

Chicago Tribune

Obama Foundation revenues down in 2021 amid pandemic, delays in approval for construction

CHICAGO — Former President Barack Obama’s foundation set a goal last summer of raising $1.6 billion between 2021 and 2026 to pay for construction of his presidential center and an endowment to sustain it for years to come.

Chicago Sun-Times

New report reveals Obama Foundation fundraising dips; CEO Valerie Jarrett paid $592,905 in 2021

The Obama Foundation reported on its new IRS 990 that in 2021, the foundation collected $159.6 million, down from $171 million in 2020.

The Independent UK

Obama, Airbnb's Brian Chesky launch $100M in scholarships

The co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, has donated $100 million to the Obama Foundation to fund scholarships for students pursuing careers in public service and includes multiple stipends for travel

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The Independent UK

Lawsuit blocking construction of Obama Presidential Center in Chicago park is thrown out

‘This is not the end of the road,’ the president of the Protect Our Parks groups said

The Independent UK

Judge dismisses suit to block construction of Obama Center

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in a park on Chicago’s South Side

Chicago Tribune

Lawsuit over Obama Presidential Center’s construction in Chicago’s Jackson Park has been dismissed

CHICAGO — A lawsuit that aimed to stop the Obama Presidential Center from being built in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park has been dismissed by a federal judge.

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