The Obama Presidential Center Opens
Thousands explore the presidential center’s sprawling grounds, dance and see the museum for the first time.
Today was for the people. And there were thousands.
The day after four former presidents and four former first ladies, celebrities, foreign dignitaries and elected officials came out in full force for the opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, visitors from around the world and down the block came to witness the festivities for themselves on opening day.
On a warm and sunny Juneteenth mid-morning, people began filtering onto the grounds, some making their way to the one-acre playground while others lined up for photos with the bronze sculpture of the Obamas at the base of the museum building. Hundreds of people lined up for ticketed-entry to the museum—sold out weeks ago—to be among the first to see the four-floor exhib…
