Have you caught wind of the latest developments regarding Barack Obama’s presidential center? If not, Obama himself highlighted it in a post on Saturday.
The project has become somewhat of a debacle over time, embodying the complexities often associated with Obama’s initiatives.
A recent Newsweek article described the center as being “Behind Schedule, Over Budget, and Mired in Lawsuits.”
Concerns have also emerged from the local community, who are not entirely pleased with the project.
One local resident went so far as to label it a “monstrosity,” lamenting the loss of the area’s former beauty. It seems the voices of the community have been overshadowed by grand ambitions.
READ MORE: Locals Are Outraged at the Big, Ugly, Obama Presidential Center
— Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) October 19, 2025
The local community was also unhappy with it or had concerns.
The Obama Center – which has faced years of delays and lawsuits since breaking ground in September 2021 – will cover nearly 20 acres of the 540-acre Jackson Park and feature a museum, public library branch, athletic center, gardens and children’s play area.
While the privately funded project’s price tag has ballooned from its original $500 million budget, residents said they’ve also seen rents and property taxes skyrocket as construction nears completion.
“Rents are going up fast,” Kyana Butler of Southside Together, one of at least three local activist groups that lobbied the Obama Foundation to better integrate the project into the surrounding neighborhood, told the Daily Mail.
“A two-bedroom apartment that used to rent for $800 a month has already jumped to $1,800. Property taxes are going up so much that the owner of my building is saying she might just walk away.
One resident called it a “monstrosity,” taking away from the beautiful area that once was there. So much for the feelings of the locals. Guess those got lost in the narcissism.
READ MORE: Locals Are Outraged at the Big, Ugly, Obama Presidential Center
But it’s sort of hilarious that Obama is posting about it, standing there with Michelle, and admiring it, like it’s something great, because quite frankly, it has to be one of the ugliest buildings I’ve ever seen. “Let’s bring change home,” the video ends. That’s a change, all right. But just like the change that Obama brought to the country, it’s not looking good, like the gray ugliness of the buildings of the Soviet Union or a dystopian prison.
Some posted videos with “Star Wars” X-wing fighters closing in on the library building, while others Photoshopped the structure sideways to replace the torsos of the massive AT-AT walkers from “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Others superimposed the Eye of Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” movies on its roof, and others simply posted photos of Easter Island heads.
Kitty litter boxes were also included in the comparisons, as were common trash bins, dumpsters, and ephemera from “Star Trek” and “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
“It’s an ‘obamanation’! Just like his presidency!” one person wrote.
“It’s like someone built a Lego set without the instructions,” said another.
Bruh,
Its a Jawa sandcrawler, not a library. pic.twitter.com/9N3eZFH6xJ— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) October 18, 2025
— Alex Hernandez 🇺🇸 🚫 💉 (@ahernandez85a) October 18, 2025
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said it was a “bold move” to locate the “Death Star” in Chicago.
Scott Adams thought North Korean guard tower.
One of these is the Obama Library and the other is a North Korean guard tower. pic.twitter.com/ealD53Fpgl
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 19, 2025
Seriously, paying $830 million for this explains one of the reasons the Obama presidency was such a failure.
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