President Obama will choose the University of Chicago as the site for his presidential library, according to several reports and sources close to the Obama family. The proposal from the University ...

A study by the University of Chicago has estimated 800,000 people will visit the library each year. Visitors could spend up to $31 million a year and food and retail.

To get a full sense of the scope of the graffiti she found in the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, check out her Flickr set of more than 700 photos. Advertisement ...

CHICAGO (CBSNewYork/AP)-- President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama announced officially Tuesday that the future Obama presidential library will be coming to Chicago. Columbia University had ...

More than 100 members of the University of Chicago faculty are asking the Obama Foundation to move the proposed library honoring the 44th president to a new location because the plan as currently ...

Columbia University, his alma mater, and the University of Hawaii sought to win the library for New York and Honolulu, respectively. The University of Illinois at Chicago had also vied to host it.

In a recent posting on its website, the University proposed that the presidential library and museum be built on 21-22 acres of parkland on Chicago’s South Side. The two proposed sites are ...

The University of Chicago has revealed how its automated, robotic Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will work. The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome fashioned from glass and steel, has no ...

If Google Books was a physical place instead of a web service, it would probably look a lot like the University of Chicago’s new library The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, opening next week, is ...

The University for the first time has openly expressed interest in the Obama presidential library as the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chicago State University launch public campaigns to try ...

Renowned Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn designed the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will be a partially underground facility topped with a glass dome and have the capacity to house 3.5 ...