US EditionFormer President Barack Obama surprises young students, reads to them at West Woodlawn library
- On Tuesday, Former President Barack Obama surprised two dozen Burke Elementary School students at the Bessie Coleman branch in Woodlawn, entering wearing a red Santa hat.
- Last week, Obama announced the Obama Presidential Center, under construction since 2021, will open in June, as the Home Court athletic facility became the first building completed.
- At the library, Obama read Karyn Parsons’s Flying Free and walked Burke Elementary students through words like unfurl, invited career dreams, then greeted library staff and handed out winter items; coverage was limited by the Obama Foundation.
- The Obama Foundation said the visit aimed to showcase public libraries as accessible, democratic spaces, highlighting a new mural by Kari Blak featuring Bessie Coleman at the Chicago Public Library branch.
- The museum building and gardens at the Obama Presidential Center are under construction and slated to open next year, featuring a 225-foot museum tower, auditorium, and NBA-regulation basketball court.
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The former US President Barack Obama met with the students of Burke Elementary at the Chicago Public Library. He read with them some Christmas fairy tales and talking about the Obama Presidential Center, the cultural complex that will open next year with museum, archive, civic center and a new branch of the public library. The project will offer spaces and educational programs to the community of the South Side, strengthening the link between cu…
‘Santa’ Obama surprises Chicago students with storytime visit
Barack Obama dressed in a Santa hat in a surprise visit to children at a Chicago library on Tuesday (9 December). The former president, 64, stopped by the Bessie Coleman branch of the Chicago Public Library to read to Burke Elementary students, who were participating in a story time and coloring activity when Mr Obama made his entrance. "He came in the room, and [the children's] eyes just lit up," Bessie Coleman Library branch manager Valerie Ca…
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