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Obama Presidential Center or not, Woodlawn works on its comeback

March 29, 2019

"...With plans to locate the Barack Obama Presidential Center on the edge of the community — a development that has been slowed, in part because of a lawsuit to move it out of nearby Jackson Park — there’s a general feeling that the community may be getting back on its feet...A few blocks south of Jewel, at 63rd and Cottage Grove Avenue, Woodlawn Station, a mixed-use commercial and residential building developed by national nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing, recently opened with the well-known 127-year-old Daley’s Restaurant as one of its anchor tenants...."

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