Michele Norris
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Michele Norris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My commute took me more and more through downtown
and over west.
And we were cultured.
We went to museums.
We did things like that.
But I started noticing that the investments downtown were very different, that in order to do or see or experiencing anything beyond what you knew, you had to get on a bus or pay for parking
or take the L and go to a whole nother community to experience beautiful parks and to really enjoy the lake and to see art and to see culture.
It was here, but it wasn't here.
Right.
I think they call that disinvestment.
It's disinvestment.
So when something like this opens, and there really is nothing else like this, and you decide to make an investment in a community like this.
An $850 million investment.
Yeah.
That says something.
That says you count.
It's supposed to say something.
Hope comes home.
Inside the Obama Presidential Center continues after this.
In the new branch of the Chicago Public Library, President Obama has chosen 3,000 of his favorite books to fill up the shelves of his presidential reading room.
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