SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
3-15-15
tags: Chicago, Obama library
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3-15-15
Chicago land feud over Obama presidential library plan reflects familiar history
Breaking Newstags: Chicago, Obama library
With President Obama expected to choose the site for his library in coming months, Chicagoans have been engaged in a bitter fight over a proposal to place it in a public park. But this is not the first time a presidential library has been at the center of a land dispute.
In College Station, Texas, residents fought Texas A&M University over plans to move a pig farm to make way for the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Residents in Atlanta tied themselves to trees and lay down in front of bulldozers to stop the city from building a highway through a public park leading to President Carter's library.
And in Little Rock, Ark., the city evoked eminent domain to make way for President Clinton's library.
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