The first facility at the Obama Presidential Center opened its doors, giving the public its first look at the controversial library. Home Court is a 60,000 square-foot structure that features the same ...

An evaluation of Trump’s White House renovation and his predecessor’s “Obamalisk” in Chicago.

Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy? That’s a question US President Barack Obama will soon answer when he and First Lady Michelle Obama announce ...

Former President Obama was in the Windy City to check on the progress of the nearly finished Barack Obama Presidential Library. Former President Barack Obama made a holiday pop-up visit to a Chicago ...

Former President Barack Obama's much-maligned presidential center will officially open in June in Chicago after years of delays and protests, the former president revealed. "We’re going to open in ...

The Illinois Republican Party has blasted as "divisive" the hiring language the Obama Foundation is using for the Obama Presidential Center, arguing it shows the privately run project is using public ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois legislature is rushing through a bill that could improve Chicago's chances to win the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum, but it seems to be stalled in the ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Some of the White House materials bound for President Barack Obama’s presidential library in Chicago will start making their way from Washington, D.C., to Illinois this ...

Former President Obama got into the holiday spirit by surprising students at a Chicago Public Library on Tuesday. He joined more than two dozen elementary school students for story time, reading the ...

A group of Chicago elementary school students had an unexpected visitor Tuesday when former President Barack Obama walked in wearing a Santa hat and sat down to read to them. The Burke Elementary ...