CHICAGO (AP) — The city of
Chicago made its first full-throated response this week to a lawsuit
seeking to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center, saying
the buildings would sit on land that wasn't subject to restrictive
public-trust laws.
City attorneys made those and other legal arguments in a federal
court motion to dismiss a May lawsuit filed by an environmental group
opposed to the project in Chicago's historic Jackson Park, chosen as the
site for the $500 million presidential museum and library by former
President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
