Obama Presidential Center

This guide to the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago traces a legal fight over Jackson Park, the lakefront ground Frederick Law Olmsted first shaped in 1871 into lagoons and a mile-long canal after finding nothing here to work with but Lake Michigan. It follows Herbert Caplan, president of a group called Protect Our Parks, who sued starting in 2018 to stop a former president's library from rising on Olmsted's landscape, arguing over migrating birds and a shadowed garden. Look up at the granite tower's windows, shaped like four hands meeting, as you take in the dispute that came before it.