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Pete, Laura, Tom and Todd Ricketts sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during 7th inning stretch of Chicago Cubs game against Milwaukee Brewers during the home opener at Wrigley Field on April 12, 2010.

With or without Cubs clinching Series, Ricketts family has $2B ballclub

May 15, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

Since buying the Chicago Cubs for $845 million in 2009, the billionaire Ricketts family has been painstakingly laying the groundwork for new sources of revenue to revitalize the team once...

Martin Nesbitt, chairman of the Barack Obama Foundation, talks with attendees Oct. 27, 2016, after his talk sponsored by the Executives' Club of Chicago.

Obama Foundation chief promises inclusive bidding in library development

May 23, 2019 at 3:17 a.m.

Minority businesses will have a fair shot at contracts tied to the Obama Presidential Center that will be built on Chicago's South Side, the project's chairman told corporate and civic...

Wrigleyville becoming refined, redefined

May 22, 2019 at 10:37 p.m.

Sluggers World Class Sports Bar and Grill, a cavernous Wrigleyville watering hole, used to spend $20,000 a year on ballpark advertising. But several years after the Ricketts family bought the...

Obama Foundation names 17 leaders to ‘inclusion council’ on diversity issues

June 9, 2018 at 11:50 a.m.

The nonprofit foundation behind the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park said Tuesday it has enlisted 17 civic and corporate leaders to help promote diversity and inclusion. The presidential center,...

For the Ricketts family, patience pays off

May 15, 2019 at 11:33 p.m.

After holding a baby, posing for selfies with wide-eyed grown men, helping fans fumbling with their phone cameras, signing baseballs for boys in team jerseys and autographing a scorecard, a...

A bicyclist in Jackson Park near the site of the Obama Presidential Center on April 14, 2021.

Borrowing page from Obama’s past, activists seek slice of library pie

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

At first glance, the meeting of about 100 South Side activists this month was unremarkable as they sat around folding tables and jotted down ideas for economic development on broad...

Obama library could spark golf course upgrade

June 11, 2018 at 9:55 p.m.

President Barack Obama's affinity for golf may find a new outlet in Chicago, just down the road from his planned presidential library, if a proposal pans out for a lakefront...

Obama Foundation Chair Marty Nesbitt joins community leaders to officially announce the Jackson Park location of the Obama Presidential Center during a press conference outside the Museum of Science and Industry Aug. 3, 2016.

Obama library boosters: Jackson Park choice won’t leave Washington Park in dust

June 10, 2018 at 10:38 a.m.

With the sun glimmering off the Jackson Park lagoon, planners of an Obama presidential library in that historic park sought to reassure residents living near Washington Park, the runner-up site,...

Parks group says Obama library site isn’t public trust land, won’t sue

June 10, 2018 at 9:54 a.m.

Friends of the Parks said Wednesday it will not file a lawsuit to stop the Obama presidential library in Jackson Park. The parks preservation group said it remains opposed to...

Woodlawn pins big hopes on Obama library

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

No sooner had President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama chosen historic Jackson Park for his presidential library than neighboring Woodlawn began to dream big. Real estate developers see...

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