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Lynn Sweet is a columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times. Was columnist at the late PoliticsDaily.
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Star-studded lineup to perform at Obama Presidential Center opening: live updates

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By Lynn Sweet Verified, Stefano Esposito Verified, Lee Bey Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
06:45 AM The fix was always in to put the Obama Center on the South Side of Chicago. When the Obama Presidential Center is dedicated later today it will open almost a decade — 9 years, 10 months, 20 days — after the Jackson Park site was announced on July 29, 2016. The selection came at the end of a bidding process that stated in 2014.
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Meet the mega-donors who funded the Obama Foundation Original

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By Lynn Sweet Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
For the first time we have more information about how much the very top donors to the Obama Presidential Foundation contributed. We know more now because there is a donor wall in the museum giving the mega-givers a nod. Through the years I’ve been covering Obama Foundation finances, this is the most comprehensive breakdown to date. The foundation collected six donations of $50 million plus, including one anonymous contributor. The names listed on the wall are: Connie Ballmer.
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The Obama Presidential Center is not an official presidential library. Here's why Original

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By Lynn Sweet Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Calling the Obama Presidential Center the Obama “Library” is wrong. Yes, there is a Chicago Public Library branch at the center. But that is not the same thing as a presidential library run by the National Archives and Records Administration. The NARA owns all the digital and print presidential records and physical artifacts of former president Barack Obama’s presidency. The NARA is tasked in preserving them in perpetuity.
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