- Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times Media
- This vacant lot in North Lawndale could become the site of the Obama Presidential Library.
I think the best way to illuminate the latest twists and turns in the Obama Presidential Library fiasco is with an analogy to my beloved game of basketball.
But as they’re heading home in triumph they hear that the powers that be—like Mayor Rahm—have put more time on the clock.
Among those rules is the one dealing with the proposed library site.
So before they submitted their RFP, they needed a guarantee from his eminence, the mayor, that he would, in fact, turn over the land. If by chance the Obamas choose the UIC/North Lawndale bid.
If this were a game of basketball, it’d be over. And North Lawndale would be moving on to the next round to play against those dastardly Lions of Columbia University, speaking of the pampered and well connected.
And that outcry might jeopardize the university’s proposal.
