The team of rivals angling to land the Obama presidential library and museum — Chicago State University, the University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago — united on Thursday to encourage the state of Illinois to appropriate $100 million for the project, to help lure it to the city.
With little discussion and with no opposition, a state House panel advanced to the House floor the Obama library $100 million sweetener championed by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago.
Shirley Madigan, the chairman of the Illinois Arts Council — and Madigan’s wife — also testified in favor of the project.
The $100 million would be used to help pay the construction costs, Madigan said, with the money intended to be a gigantic carrot to impress the officials of the Chicago-based Obama Presidential Foundation.
The first proposals are due on June 16; those who make the cut will go on to a second round. Bids are expected from the state of Hawaii and Columbia University in New York
And even though the state is struggling financially, capital projects remain in the funding pipeline. Anyway, Illinois threw in about $100 million for the Lincoln Library in Springfield, “so we have precedent,” Madigan said. (emphasis mine)Read the rest of the story HERE.
And even though the state is struggling financially, capital projects remain in the funding pipeline. Anyway, Illinois threw in about $100 million for the Lincoln Library in Springfield, “so we have precedent,”They're kidding right? Surely that comment was tongue-in-cheek. To say the names Lincoln and Obama in the same sentence seems almost criminal.
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