Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side

奥巴马的新总统中心及其与南区的微妙关系

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-07-03

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How do residents of the South Side of Chicago feel about their new neighbor: the Obama Presidential Center? A mixture of pride and excitement, tempered with some concerns about what it could do to housing affordability. On today’s show, we’re bringing you an episode from our friends at Code Switch on the new center and its relationship to the historically Black neighborhoods around it. Connect with The Indicator — Sign up for The Indicator’s brand new newsletter — Buy the Planet Money book — Find our socials, YouTube and more! — For sponsor-free episodes, subscribe to NPR+ See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR.

  • This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Waylon Wong.

  • A few weeks ago, not so far from where I live, the Obama Presidential Center opened on the south side of Chicago.

  • We were going to do an episode on it, but our friends at Code Switch got there first.

  • So today we're going to share with you their excellent full half-hour episode on the new center

  • and its impact on the neighborhood around it.

  • Hope you enjoy.

  • What's good, y'all?

  • You're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR.

  • I'm Gene Demby.

  • And I'm B.A. Parker.

  • Okay, so there's this school on the south side of Chicago called Hyde Park Academy.

  • It's really big and it has a lot of the challenges

  • that really big inner city schools with lots of poor kids have.

  • You know, old building, not a lot of resources.

  • You've heard that story before, yeah.

  • Just last month, some students there walked out of class to protest

  • because three students died over the course of just one month.

  • That's horrible.