Obama center foes decry ‘rubber-stamping’ as Chicago council OKs project

“The City Council’s rubber-stamping of the Obama Presidential Center was totally expected,” Charles A. Birnbaum, CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., said in a statement Wednesday.

“For all the talk of transparency, the Obama Foundation has never answered one essential question: Why MUST National Register-designated public parkland be taken for [the Obama center] when other options exist?”