As the Obama Presidential Center opens, Trump has made fun of its design and cost while touting his own planned skyscraper.

The Obama Presidential Center opened Friday after controversies including costs ballooning to $850 million, unpaid contractors, and displacement concerns.

The pastor claims Obama's presidential library design says "this country is bad, it needs to be brought down, it needs to be fundamentally changed, and God doesn't exist.”

Barack Obama's presidential library is the most expensive ever constructed, at least until Trump drops billions into his own.

They are a peculiar institution, and the opening of Barack Obama’s illuminates why they are so controversial. Many countries preserve presidential material in state archives, and some notable 21st-century leaders can claim museums and monuments in their honour,

The CEO of the Obama Foundation offered an inside look at the former president's controversial presidential library, addressing lingering concerns over its design. The monumental project in Chicago is all compiled on a 20-acre campus filled with parks ...

The center, its companion buildings, plaza and redesigned park space is among the best urban spaces in the city, maybe second only to Millennium Park.

The Obama Presidential Center opened in June 2026 amid online rumors that the former president "stiffed" subcontractors who worked on the project.