Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center represents a historic opportunity to build a world-class cultural institution and campus that celebrates democracy and tells the story of our country through the lens of our nation’s first African American President and First Lady.
The decision to build the Center on the South Side of Chicago was an intentional one, intended to connect with the community that forever shaped the lives, values, and beliefs of President and Mrs. Obama.
It will be a physical manifestation of our mission and it will be a place where our neighbors from across the street or around the globe can come to reflect, grow, connect, and create a better future.
The Center will invite visitors to find their own purpose and discover their collective ability to make their communities and the world as it should be through action.
The Center is an invitation for all of us to bring change home.
Thanks in part to the generosity of our donors, we’re naming key spaces throughout the Center after civil rights activists, trailblazers, local Chicago historic figures, and others on whose shoulders we stand. Our intention is that these named spaces will also motivate visitors to find new inspiration to make change in their own communities.