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The Obama Presidential Library Looks Like The Plymouth Arcology From SimCity 2000

Why are we not talking about this?

Oct 23, 2025
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Left: The Plymouth Arco. Right: The Obama Library.

The Obama Presidential Library has been promised as “a lively community hub, economic anchor, and beacon of democracy” in the South Side of Chicago, but it presently looks like a brutalist wizard’s tower. While it looks too small to contain 55,000 people, its gray resemblance to the Plymouth industrial a…

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