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The Government Efficiency Department (Doge) led by Elon Musk has finished the lease contract at the Obama Presidential Library site, although it is unlikely to affect the operations there, since Shutter is due to Shutter at the end of this year and moves to a new location.
The library is located in Hoffman Estates in northwest Chicago and is separated from the extensive Obama presidential center of 19.3 acres near Jackson Park In South Chicago that is under construction and is expected to be completed next year.
The Hoffman Estates site is led by the National Archives and Registries Administration (NARA), as well as all presidential libraries, while the Obama Presidential Center is a private company supervised by the Obama Foundation.
Dege is over the lease at the site of the Obama Presidential Library. (Alex Wong/Getty images, left, and Andrew Harnik/Getty images, right).
This week, Dege updated its list of almost 750 federal lease terminations, with a total of around 9.6 million square feet of size, which included the Hoffman Estates site. The agency, which has been commissioned by the president Donald Trump To reduce the wasteful federal expenditure, he said that the terminations will save the taxpayer $ 468 million in lease savings.
The Doge website did not provide a calendar for closures, although a Nara spokesman told Fox News Digital that the Hoffman Estates library was scheduled to close at the end of the fiscal year (FY) 2025 and move to College Park in Maryland. The Government 2025 fiscal year extends until September 30, 2025.
According to Nara estimate, there are around 25 million documents on paper not classified in the Hoffman Estate building, and they are currently being digitized and will be available in digital format at the Obama Presidential Center when it opens. According to the 1978 Presidential Registries Law, Nara receives custody of all presidential records and artifacts when a president leaves the position.
The lease of the Obama Presidential Library in Hoffman Estates has been completed. (Google Maps)
Currently in Hoffman Estaes there are also 35,000 physical artifacts, including the gifts given to the Obama. The library, a converted furniture furniture exhibition room, also houses the old President Barack Obama’s Silver Blackberry, the draft of the first opening speech of Obama who wrote on a paper pad, a signed football by Pittsburgh Steelers, a sword with jewels of Saudi Arabia and dressed in former first lady Michelle Obama.
Those artifacts It will also be sent to Maryland and occasionally borrowed to the Presidential Center of Obama, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Nara began leasing the building in 2016, paying $ 1.4 million each year for rent, according to the Chicago Tribune, citing the administration of general services, which directs the portfolio of real estate of the government.
The Obama Presidential Library is separated from the Obama Presidential Center, right, which is under construction. (Scott Olson/Getty Images, Left, Fox News, Right).
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The building is owned by Hoffman Estates Medical Development LLC, who bought it in 2011 and transformed it into a fortified and controlled installation.
The Obama presidential library is expected to open some time next year and has been plagued with delays and excess costs. Initially it was expected to cost $ 350 million, but that figure shot at $ 830 million in 2021. It is not clear what the total costs will be.
It will consist of a 235 feet tower museum, a branch of the Chicago Public LibraryConferences facilities, a gym and a NBA court of the size of a regulation. It will also house the Obama Non -profit Foundation, which supervises the development of the center.
