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Sun-Times architecture critic. Author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side.
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West Side's new Sankofa Village Wellness Center seeks to heal — and impress

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By Lee Bey 
| Chicago Sun-Times
If any Chicago thoroughfare deserves a come up, it’s West Side’s downtrodden Madison Street. And now, a spate of new projects and initiatives promises to significantly improve the long-neglected street, the latest of which is the $48 million Sankofa Village Wellness Center that officially opened a few weeks ago at 4305 W.
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Nearly 7-foot Obama sculpture welcomes visitors to presidential center

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By Lee Bey 
| Chicago Sun-Times
The Obama Presidential Center officially opens in two weeks. And when it does, you’ll be able to check out what’ll likely be one of its most popular attractions without ever entering a building there. A 1,200-lb bronze sculpture that memorializes former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s historic walk down crowd-lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day in 2009 stands on the center’s entry plaza, right outside the front door of the Museum Tower.
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No tower of glower: Obama Center and its maligned signature building are worthy of consideration

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By Lee Bey 
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)
Ever since the Obama Presidential Center began rising out the historic grounds of Jackson Park, its Museum Tower — the campus’ most visible structure — became a riddlesome, what-the-heck-is-this kind of a building. And there was a reason for this. In a city of tall, glassy skyscrapers, the Museum Tower is shrouded in granite and virtually windowless. While the best of Chicago’s parks buildings attempt to blend in with their landscapes, the stocky, square-jawed 225-foot building at 6101 S.
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