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YES: Chicago is not playing around. They are moving to rename the street in front of Trump Tower "Barack Hussein Obama Way."

A Chicago alderman introduced the ordinance this week to give Wabash Avenue — the street that runs directly through Trump Tower — an honorary designation for Barack Obama.

The push came from the people: an online petition grew from 700 signatures to over 22,000 in days. The alderman said he'd been considering honoring Obama for years, and the petition was the push he needed to move.

The Obama Presidential Center opened in Chicago this week — an $850 million campus built on the South Side, in the community where Obama got his start. Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Bono and more performed. Three former presidents showed up. One wasn’t invited.

Thousands gathered on the lawn just to watch on a screen because they wanted to be there for the moment.

And the day before the opening, Chicago alderman Brendan Reilly introduced the ordinance to put an honorary "Barack Hussein Obama Way" sign right in front of Trump Tower on Wabash Avenue.

You have to wonder if the “Hussein” is in there because Trump seems to love to say it as if it’s derogatory. It’s not.

When asked if the designation would include the Trump Tower block specifically, Reilly said: "Of course."

One president built a $850 million community center on the South Side. The other has a tower with his name on it in gaudy gold letters.

The contrast kind of speaks for itself.

Former President Barack Obama shared a heartfelt tribute to Former First Lady Michelle Obama, joking about how she challenged him while expressing gratitude for the way she helped him grow. His remarks highlighted their partnership, support, and the personal influence she has had on his life.

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The real celebration of America's 250th birthday just took place today at the Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago, and the South Side threw itself the kind of party that makes you remember what hope actually felt like. Every living former president showed up, Bono sang, Bruce Springsteen played, and Stephen Colbert arrived in a full tan suit because of course he did.

Michelle Obama brought the house down telling her husband, "You did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park," and when she mentioned Barack winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton's legendary cackle rang out loud enough to find a microphone. Barack, who admitted she "did him wrong" by not showing him her speech beforehand, stood there visibly fighting tears.

Former leaders Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau made the trip, and Joe Biden, in the middle of a very public cancer battle, showed up anyway because that is what you do for family. Obama looked right at him and said, "Joe, we started as running mates and ended as family, and we would not be here without you." Notably, trump was the only living president not invited, making this the first time a sitting president was excluded from an event like this.

Watching this whole beautiful, tearful, joyful day unfold, with Stevie Wonder on stage and the world gathered on Chicago's South Side, makes you ache for the era of a president who was sharp, caring, and knew how to make the country feel worth the effort. Here's hoping we find our way back to something like that someday.

Trump pardoned 1,600 January 6th rioters, so Sean Penn is making a movie about the cops they brutalized. Trump is going to hate it.

Penn wrote the script and he’ll direct/ Warner Bros bought it, the same studio that handed him his third Oscar this year for One Battle After Another. Bradley Cooper is in talks to play the lead and cameras roll mid-2027.

Penn knows those officers personally. At the 2022 House January 6th hearings, he sat in the gallery between Officer Michael Fanone and Officer Daniel Hodges, both attacked by Trump's mob. Penn said he came as "just another citizen," there to see "if justice comes on the other side of it."

Trump pardoned roughly 1,600 rioters on day one of his second term. He called them patriots. His Justice Department then built a nearly two billion dollar "Anti-Weaponization Fund" for people it claims were politically targeted. The pardoned rioters moved straight to the front of the line.

Not surprising that Sean Penn has called Trump "an enemy of mankind."

Trump's DOJ also agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt $5 million. She's the rioter shot by Capitol Police while trying to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby.

The men who attacked the Capitol are getting taxpayer checks. The woman shot trying to break the line is getting $5 million. The cops who held the building are getting nothing.

Officer Fanone was dragged into the mob and beaten. He was tased near his heart. He suffered a heart attack at the scene, a traumatic brain injury, and PTSD that ended his career. The beating only stopped when he begged the rioters, telling them he had children.

Joe Biden gave him the Presidential Citizens Medal.

Fanone voted for Trump in 2016. He watched the man he voted for point a mob at the building he was sworn to defend.

Warner Bros is calling Penn's film "an unexpected story about friendship." The friendship is between the cops who held the Capitol while Trump's mob tried to kill them.

Trump pardoned the men who beat them. Sean Penn is making sure America never forgets what they did on Jan 6th.

BREAKING: Obama Presidential Center Opens in Chicago With Every Living Former President — Except Trump

Today, the Barack Obama Presidential Center officially opened its doors on Chicago's South Side, bringing together four former presidents, a constellation of American icons, and thousands of community members for a ceremony that felt less like a ribbon-cutting and more like a national exhale.

The $850 million, 19-acre campus in Jackson Park welcomed former Presidents Joe Biden, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, along with their former first ladies. Former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were also in attendance. The one conspicuous absence: Donald Trump, who was not invited and had spent the days before the event mocking it on social media.

The ceremony opened with a performance by The Roots before giving way to a lineup that included Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Bono and The Edge of U2, Marc Anthony, and Eddie Vedder, who performed an original song written specifically for the occasion.

Michelle Obama took the stage to thunderous applause and delivered what many observers called one of the most powerful speeches of her public career. She mounted a full-throated defense of immigrants, declaring that they are not just Americans too but are America itself. She urged the crowd to choose hope as an active act, calling it a decision that must be made deliberately in difficult times.

When Barack Obama stepped to the podium, he connected the center's founding mission to the country's own founding ideals, invoking the Declaration of Independence's promise of a government accountable to its citizens and not its rulers. In remarks widely read as a rebuke of the current occupant of the White House, he reminded the crowd that the nation's charter makes no room for kings or lords.

Obama also became visibly emotional describing his favorite exhibit: a display of letters written to him by ordinary Americans during his eight years in office. He estimated he received as many as 40,000 pieces of correspondence daily and read ten of them each day himself. The raw vulnerability of those letters, he said, stayed with him long after leaving office.

The center itself is not simply a museum. It includes a Chicago public library branch, a playground, an athletic center, a vegetable garden, and a 225-foot tower currently the tallest structure ever featured at a presidential site. Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett made clear in her remarks that the building is not a monument to the Obamas but a tribute to the communities and people who made their journey possible.

Among the crowd of roughly 6,300 attendees were several potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders, including Governors Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and JB Pritzker, along with Senator Mark Kelly. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi were also present. So were Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Stephen Colbert, and Quinta Brunson.

Chicago residents who attended the ceremony said the day gave them something they had been struggling to find: hope.