Group asks Supreme Court to block construction of Obama library in historic Chicago park – By Pete Williams and Dartunorro Clark (NBC News) / Aug 18 2021
A federal judge and an appeals court, however, both recently declined to stop the project.
A group that has long opposed building the Obama presidential library on the site of a Chicago park asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to temporarily stop work on the project.
Several local residents and a nonprofit organization called Protect Our Parks argued in court documents that the federal government failed to perform required environmental reviews, given the location of the library in Jackson Park on the city’s South Side.
Building the library would “demolish significant parts of Jackson Park, its historical resources, parkland, and trees, which will, in turn, adversely affect the human environment, the historic landscape, wildlife, and migratory birds,” the group argued in court documents.
Protect Our Parks said in a statement in June that construction of the library puts the “historic and environmental elements” of the park in “imminent danger.”
