Michele Norris
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first heard Jun 2026
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her legacy and dream as well.
It was important for me that kids like me could be right in their neighborhood and see world-class art.
Tonight, we hear from the former president and first lady and give you a tour of the museum and the sparkling new campus.
Welcome to Hope Comes Home, inside the Obama Presidential Center.
Good evening.
I'm Michelle Norris.
Welcome to Hope Comes Home inside the Obama Presidential Center.
The campus is now open to the public.
It opened on Juneteenth.
And almost everything about this center is meant to be different from any other presidential library or monument that's come before it.
The Obamas wanted this place to be an inspiration, a resource, an incubator for leadership.
They don't just want you to look back at what he did during his eight years in office.
They want you to feel some sense of responsibility for what needs to happen next.
We're going to hear so much more from President Obama tonight, as well as former First Lady Michelle Obama.
We had a chance to have a good long chat with both of them, and they talked about their vision for this place and much more.
And if you're not here in Chicago, well, you might as well be, because we have gotten an early look inside this sprawling center.
And tonight, we're going to give you an inside look at the building, the campus, and the story Barack and Michelle Obama want to tell the nation and the world.
If you had asked the young Barack Obama what he wanted to be when he grew up, he might have told you that his dream was to be an architect.
That boyhood ambition of his helps to explain why the story of the Obama Presidential Center starts not with a traditional library or a monument or even a dusty box of papers from the archives, but with the walls themselves.
What you see here is the main building at the Obama Presidential Center, more than 200 feet tall, built from granite the president handpicked himself.
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