This week, the entire country has been focused on Donald Trump’s administration after the resignation of his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn due to his alleged ties with Russia.
With chaos erupting in Washington D.C., Barack Hussein Obama took the opportunity to quietly slip away for a trip to his home city of Chicago, Illinois.
The Chicago Sun Times reported that Obama visited Chicago for the first time since leaving office on Wednesday to look over plans for the Obama Center, which is set to be built in Jackson Park. The former president had a busy day of four meetings, the first of which was with community leaders on the South Side at the Foundation’s Hyde Park offices.
The other three meetings pertained to what will be a massive fundraising drive to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the Center.
The meetings were also attended by Obama’s major benefactors, Jim and Lester Crown, and his former Commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, and her husband, Bryan Traubert.
“There was great enthusiasm from the civic leaders about the opportunity to work with the Foundation,” said former senior Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett. “Those with whom President Obama met have long and deep ties to the community. It was important to the President to communicate how important they are to the success of the Center.”
“The South Side is the President and Mrs. Obama’s home so he intends to not only build the Center there, but also bring opportunities to the area. The President was very eager to hear suggestions from the community members and encouraged them to continue the dialogue with his team after he left,” she added.
Also in attendance at the meetings were Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle; Dr. Byron Brazier, Apostolic Church of God; longtime community activist Leon Finney; Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), and representatives from two South Side organizations, the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and the Chicago Urban League.
H/T Truth Monitor
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