The Obama Presidential Center is defined by a two hundred twenty-five-foot-tall stone museum tower that rises above the landscape of Jackson Park. Opened in June twenty twenty-six, this nineteen-point-three-acre campus serves as a center…
Barack Obama’s Chicago
Trace the path of Barack Obama through the Chicago spots where he built his life and career, from the university where he taught to where he gave his 2008 victory speech.
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1. The Obama Presidential Center
2. University of Chicago Law School
The University of Chicago Law School is defined by a glass-encased, spiky cube that serves as the D’Angelo Law Library. This modernist structure, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and completed in nineteen fifty-nine, anchors a complex…
3. Obama Kissing Rock
The Obama Kissing Rock is a three-thousand-pound granite boulder sitting in a small, flower-lined green space near the corner of East Fifty-Third Street and South Dorchester Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood. A bronze plaque is mounted…
4. Valois Restaurant
Valois Restaurant is distinguished by its cafeteria-style service and the motto, “See your food,” which is posted on its signboard. Established in nineteen twenty-one by a French-Canadian immigrant named William Valois, the restaurant has…
5. Grant Park
Grant Park is a vast, flat expanse of green space wedged between the high-rises of the Chicago Loop and the shore of Lake Michigan. Often called Chicago’s front yard, the park is almost entirely built upon landfill rather than natural…
6. One South Dearborn
The glass and steel tower at One South Dearborn occupies the corner of Dearborn and Madison streets. This address is home to the offices of the law firm Sidley Austin. In the summer of nineteen eighty-nine, Barack Obama worked here as a…