The New York Times has this article saying that Chicago has moved efforts into to high gear to be the place for Barack Obama‘s presidential library. Excerpt:

Already, suitors from Mr. Obama’s home and adopted states — and even New York, where he lived for two years as an undergraduate — are expressing interest in landing the library. But it is Chicago where the competition is most fierce.

“I’m going to make sure that the city of Chicago is well positioned,” said its mayor and Mr. Obama’s former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who argued that “a world-class library” would serve as an engine of economic development and be a natural fit for the Obamas. “We’re not just relying on the family historical foundations, that this is where he launched his public life, where his wife’s from and the hometown where his kids were educated, though I’m happy to remind him of it. …”

Hawaii is barely mentioned in the article.

Photo: His kind of town? (akasped)

—Chad Blair