New York, Chicago, Hawaii Bid For Obama Presidential Library

CBS - June 17, 2014 

President Barack Obama. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — At least six locations in three different states, including New York, entered official bids by Monday’s deadline in an effort to house Barack Obama’s presidential library.

Columbia University, where Obama got his undergraduate degree, pitched a West Harlem site.
Four of the confirmed bidders are from Chicago, the president’s hometown, and a fifth was expected. Obama’s birth state of Hawaii also offered an oceanfront location in Honolulu.
While the Obama Foundation, which is planning the library, declined to confirm the bids it has received, planners for the six widely reported potential locations all confirmed they had submitted proposals.
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