Obama celebrates opening of his presidential museum with call to citizenship

Four former U.S. presidents led a crowd of thousands on Thursday in a music-filled dedication of the Obama Presidential Center, a sprawling Chicago campus of granite, nature and art designed as a hub of civic life and culture honoring the 44th president of the United States.



The occasion marked the ceremonial opening of an $850 million landmark development that ranks as the greatest single investment in a century for Chicago's long-neglected South Side, where former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama first made their family's home.



It also capped a milestone in cementing the legacy of Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, which his wife described as a counterpoint to rancor and upheaval pervading U.S. politics during the past year under President Donald Trump, whose name she did not mention.