Barack Obama turned to the Kankakee librarians when he kicked off an effort to push back against book bans earlier this week to support their belief that among their library’s 80,000 books, t… ...

Donald Trump and Barack Obama continue to throw shade at each other, this time with the president taking jabs over his predecessor's unfinished and long-awaited library and museum.. During the ...

The Obama library has been a controversial project ever since it was announced in 2015, when the Barack Obama Foundation officially said Chicago’s South Side would be home to the project.

Julian Zelizer notes that former president Barack Obama will attend the groundbreaking for his library this week and it’s worth celebrating, despite controversy over its location. In an era of ...

City officials have repeatedly pledged that St. Petersburg’s Main Library would finally reopen this summer. Anxious ...

The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a presidential library like no other. The four-building, 19-acre “working center for citizenship,” set to be built in a public park on the South ...

The latest dispute is over Barack and Michelle Obama’s decision not to build a traditional presidential library—which brings a few benefits, and many downsides, for the American public.

As the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Library in Chicago morphed into the Obama Presidential Center—without a place to hold the records of his administration—reactions ranged from ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The former Librarian of Congress who has ties to central Illinois and was abruptly dismissed by President Donald Trump in May has a new appointment. Carla Hayden is joining the Andrew W ...

The Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could require a $1.5 billion endowment, its architects say, three times what was raised for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas ...

The library has more than 35,000 artifacts related to the Obama administration, including art, books, textiles, and other historical materials, as well as millions of documents, according to NARA.

S omething fascinating is happening in Chicago. When Barack Obama became president, the city was ebullient; he was, after all, a favorite son, and he’d promised to deliver the liberal policies ...