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Last week, we asked you where you thought Obama forthcoming presidential library should be built: Chicago, Hawaii, or psh New York Chicago was the popular winner, and now the first speculative design for a Chicago library has been published online. Michael Sorkin, a New York architect who has designed masterplans everywhere from Chicago to China, recently posted his studio conceptual plan on Scribd. The crux of their idea To use Obama library as a catalyst for change in the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn鈥攚hich you might know as the setting for a Raisin in the Sun, chronicling the experience of a black family moving into the neighborhood during the late 1950s. Woodlawn to
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