President Obama Shares a Sneak Peek of His New Presidential Center in Chicago

Barack Obama’s Presidential center, in Chicago, is slated to open this spring, on Juneteenth. It will be the headquarters of the Obama Foundation, a sprawling training and networking operation for young leaders that has been Obama’s primary focus since leaving the White House. The campus, which is spread across nineteen acres, cost an estimated $850 million to build. It’s situated on the grounds of a park originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and includes a museum, a playground, and a man-made sledding hill. The center is designed to be open to the community, “a physical manifestation of their life’s philosophy,” a staff member said. Obama offers a sneak peek of the center to Peter Slevin, who profiled the former President in this week’s issue of the magazine.