Barry's lie-barry delayed by discrimination lawsuits, environmental injunctions, enrichment allegations.
The Institute for Policy Innovation complained that the center’s “poor location misses valuable opportunities to improve overall land use and economic development in Chicago from putting it elsewhere.”
“The Foundation’s sweetheart deal with Chicago violates the public trust doctrine, and the actual transfer took place without the Foundation meeting either its financial preconditions or the multiple environmental laws protecting key public landmarks. Even at this late date, the deal should be undone.
“If allowed to be completed, the OPC project would uproot close to 1,000 mature trees and disrupt major migratory bird paths that run north-to-south along the shore of Lake Michigan. In total, the public cost of the new roadwork borne by both the federal government and Illinois, but not the Obama Foundation, of course probably exceeds $300 million dollars (and growing with inflation), ultimately leaving the already overtaxed and congested system with three fewer north-south lanes than before,” it wrote.
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