"A reminder of dignity, excellence and hope"
6/18/202642 min
June 18, 2026, 4pm; The center will act as a museum, education and community center. It's a reflection of Former President Obama’s start as a community organizer.
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[upbeat music] Hi there everyone. It's 4:00 in the east. Today was a good day, a time capsule if you will, a reminder of the kind of dignity and excellence, and most of all hope, that the American presidency and the American president used to embody to the country and, frankly, the rest of the world. As former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, all living former presidents with one notable exception, and too many celebrities to count, it looked like the Oscars, gathered to honor the opening of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago. The center will act now as a museum, an education and community center. It's a reflection of former President Obama's start as a community organizer, which as one speaker said, is intended to serve as a, quote, "hotbed of hope." The event featured musical performances from Jennifer Hudson and Bono and Bruce Springsteen and The Roots and Eddie Vedder and John Legend and Common. Legend and Common performed the song Glory from the 2014 movie Selma, a reference of course, to President Obama's now legendary speech, the one he delivered on the 50th anniversary