Arrival
The Center, its setting, and first impressions.
Chicago · A personal visit · September 2026
The Obama Presidential Center
A growing record of history, memory, citizenship, and one recent weekend in Chicago.
This opening page begins a new collection in the Book Club Reading Room. It will grow with photographs, observations, and documents from Pat’s visit to the Obama Presidential Center.
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The collection begins here
Barack Obama’s Selma Anniversary Speech
Read the speech President Obama delivered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. This large-print, color-organized edition also identifies the passage displayed on the wall at the museum.
The next chapter
Photographs from the Visit
This gallery is ready for photographs and captions from the Chicago visit. Each image can become part of a visual walk through the Center and the ideas it preserves.
Inside the Museum
Exhibits, quotations, artifacts, and stories.
Reflections
What the visit revealed about history and citizenship.
More photographs and personal notes will be added to this collection.