Obama Presidential Library: Design concepts revealed

Former president says his $500 million library in Chicago will transform a troubled area, others see it as an ego trip

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Last week, former US president Barack Obama spoke in Chicago about his plans for the presidential library to be named after him.

Set to open in 2021, the library will be one of 14 presidential libraries owned by the National Archives and Records Administration. It will be designed to preserve the papers, records and collections of every president of the United States dating back to Herbert Hoover in the 1920s.

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