The Chicago Tribune reports that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have selected Jackson Park on the city’s south side as the future home for the Obama Presidential Center. RECORD confirmed the news with a source familiar with the decision-making process. 

The library will will occupy a stretch of green space in the lagoon-streaked, 500-acre park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, home to the famous White City of the 1893 Columbian Exposition.