You Didn’t Build That

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Somebody else made that happen.

The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses.

But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago’s South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center’s grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.

A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center’s defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses and local contractors grow through one of Chicago’s highest-profile construction projects. Several of the complaints reviewed by Fox News Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that mission.

h/t agm

30 Replies to “You Didn’t Build That”

  2. YES, OBAMA IS THE FLIM-FLAM MAN
    Illinois Taxpayers Stuck With $175 Million Bill for Obama Center After Pledge of “No Public Money”
    https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/illinois-taxpayers-stuck-with-175-million-bill-for-obama-center-after-pledge-of-no-public-money.html
    Taxpayer liability jumped $25 million in 6 months.
    “Illinois taxpayers are facing potential costs related to the Obama Presidential Center, with estimates indicating that taxpayers could be responsible for up to $199 million for associated projects. Concerns have been raised about the financial stability of the center and the adequacy of its endowment fund”.
    Fox News
    illinoispolicy.org
    2016 Chicago’s mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Democrat-Socialist City Council and the Flim-Flam Man promised no tax funds when public land provided for the Lie-Barry monstrosity. The building is an embarrassment to the architectural heritage of Chicago. Woe to unsuspecting tourists who venture into the Jackson Park high crime neighborhood.

  3. l dont mind saying it now BUT, l was on the verge of predicting this cost overrun a ways back, buuuuut ‘rayyyyycysssstt’. well, well, well. $1,000,000,000 worth of racism rigtch heah folks.
    legacy indeed. and it will all be glossed over and forgotten under decades of TDS to come.

    1. “Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.” NY Post
      “Obama Foundation’s reserve fund — originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble — remains funded at roughly $1 million”.

      The “skim” from this project makes the Chicago Outfit’s legendary Las Vegas “skim” look amateurish.

  4. An ugly monument to a deceitful, race-baiting, Marxist poseur President. America’s Trudeau with magic skin tone instead of hair and socks.

    1. The mangled alphabet of unreadable words at the top corner of the building sums it all up perfectly. Nothing this man ever said was comprehensible or coherent. The only letters missing are the ‘uhms’ and ‘ahhs’ Barry stuttered when his teleprompter went down.

      1. yep.
        the whole word salad shyt show on permanent display now. what a &%$?!>$^ narcissist.

  5. And he damn sure didn’t pay for it.

    Just another time taxpayers get screwed by a multi-millionaire liberal politician.

    BTW, Kate, all-time greatest headline!

  8. What the h*ll did they expect from a small-time Chicago grifter? Al Capone was more honest than Obama.

  9. Two things I don’t like about Obama.

    1. “you didn’t build that”. Was he implying that the government did?

    2. when he took credit for the increase in oil & gas production in his second Presidential address – the climate change doomsday man taking credit for an increase in fossil fuel production.

    1. “Was he implying that the government did?”

      He may have been implying that negro slaves built that.
      You know, like the ones who built that monument to Obama’s ego.
      Who knew fugly could cost $850 Million?
      Not those negro contractors who got stiffed is my guess.

  10. Where are the endowment fund donations from Flim-Flam’s Hollywood, political, corporate friends and the Mullahs?

    Just heard locals call it “Barry’s Bathhouse”.

  12. Looking at this, it appears to be structurally designed for demolition.
    Shi- stuff like this, all the changes, the mystery, every subcontractor there had to know they were getting scammed unless they felt they were part of the scam. Big change order approvals are absolutely worthless without cost up front accounting practices. The money’s not comming. The dupers have been duped. Half of them signed up without reading a single page of the plan and all the shi- hidden in the contracts. Go ahead, try to sue them, no lawyer will touch it.
    The $470 million safeguard, heh, that’s for their lawyers.

  13. It’s ironic that minority contractors were the target of this scam. The Magic Negro, always looking out for the little guy.

    1. I’m old enough to remember when the Obamaites claimed Trump always stiffed his Contractors … which was patently untrue.

  14. Chicago celebrated the bastard, who should be known as Frank Marshall Davis Jr., and now not only did they lose parkland but also a fortune!

    Since that design (with a few touches of his own) was picked by him, clearly he wants to bring Soviet Brutalist Architecture to the USA!

    And like all good commies, everybody else gets to pay for his dreams!

    Al Capone died of tertiary syphilis, perhaps this crook might from Kaposi’s sarcoma…

    1. Valerie Jarrett. A face like a possum. Next to Michelle, easily the most loathsome creature from that train wreck (intentional, mind you) administration.

    2. Did you hear about a muslim, a homosexual and a communist going into a bar?
      The first thing the bartender did was to shout out, “your Pink Lady, is coming right up Mr. President!”

  16. They should just call it OCP Headquarters and move the Robocop statue in front.

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