{"id":2466070,"date":"2026-06-18T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2466070"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:46:14","slug":"former-presidents-and-celebrity-guests-dedicate-the-obama-presidential-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-presidents-and-celebrity-guests-dedicate-the-obama-presidential-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Former presidents and celebrity guests dedicate the Obama Presidential Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thursday was a day of celebration on the South Side of Chicago, the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center and a full circle moment for Barack Obama, where he got his political start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it was here in this city, a city of broad shoulders, that I found what I was looking for,&#8221; Obama said in remarks during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>It was part homecoming and part long time coming for former President Barack Obama on Thursday as he helped dedicate his presidential center in Chicago, a moment that was years in the making.<\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED STORY | <\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/us-news\/see-inside-the-obama-presidential-center-set-to-open-in-chicago-friday\"><b>See inside the Obama Presidential Center<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 19-acre campus features a towering museum with exhibits on American history and Obama&#8217;s presidency, a regulation-sized basketball court, a new Chicago public library, and more. Now the 44th president hopes the space will help serve and educate the community for years into the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted it to be a vibrant, living celebration of community where we can learn together and share the joys of art and music and sport and play. Because it&#8217;s in those moments that we&#8217;re reminded of our common humanity,&#8221; Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Obama and former First Lady Michelle, three former presidents were on hand for the dedication ceremony, which also featured a star-studded lineup of performers including Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Bruce Springsteen, and John Legend.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of locals came out for the ceremony, watching a live feed from a watch party at a nearby park, eager for a chance to visit the campus soon.<\/p>\n<p>The center opens to the public on Friday. Admission to the campus is free to the public, but you do need a ticket to see the museum, and right now those tickets are sold out until November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n        appId : '539069052819459',\n    xfbml : true,\n    version : 'v2.9'\n    });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n    js.async = true;\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.turnto23.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was a day of celebration on the South Side of Chicago, the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center and a full circle moment for Barack Obama, where he got his political start. &#8220;And it was here in this city, a city of broad shoulders, that I found what I was looking for,&#8221; Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2466071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Former-presidents-and-celebrity-guests-dedicate-the-Obama-Presidential-Center.com2F762F192Ffbb7c76d42c7bcfa6b1ea49c3b212Fap26169697.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466072,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466070\/revisions\/2466072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}