Michele Norris
speaker
583 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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The Obamas could have located their campus closer to downtown Chicago, a focal point for tourists from all over the world.
But they came back to the South Side, back to the place where they raised their daughters, where Michelle Obama grew up with the goal of changing the footprint and the fortunes of the South Side with new jobs, new visitors and, yes, new pressures from gentrification.
For the Obamas, choosing the South Side is an expression of hope that Sweet Home Chicago can not just handle all of that, but thrive.
Let me ask you about the neighborhood.
It's in the South Side, on the South Side, on Stony Island, a street that is too often in the news for sometimes the wrong reasons.
What does it mean to place this center in a place that doesn't usually see this kind of investment?
Are you worried about displacement there?
I mean, Airbnb rates are going up, rents are going up.
Do you have a plan to monitor or mitigate the kinds of things that can happen with gentrification?
It is the hope, not just for President Obama, but for Mrs. Obama as well.
Of the two of them, she is the one who actually grew up on the South Side.
We're on the south side of Chicago.
We are home.
And I want to talk to you about the south side.
And I invite you to correct me if I'm not saying it right because I lived in Chicago.
I have all kinds of relatives who are on the south side, but I never lived on the south side.
And there's a particular way of saying it.
Oh, well, it just depends on the mood.
You know, if you're really calling out, it's south side, you know.
But otherwise, that's exactly right.
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