"Protect Our Parks has has accepted University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein’s pro bono offer to lead its appeal against the city and Chicago Parks District after the federal district court threw out their case to prevent construction of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Jackson Park.

Epstein, one of the country’s most-cited legal theorists, a libertarian who also has appointments at New York University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, argued against the OPC location in a January amicus brief.

He previewed arguments in a June 28 interview with the Herald. He said the Obama Foundation has all-but-ownership of its designated 19-acre campus in Jackson Park, which the city will own while allowing the Foundation to build and operate the OPC upon it. The planned Chicago Public Library branch is a strategic “diversion” for purported “multiple uses.”"

Read the full article by Aaron Gettinger at the Hyde Park Herald.