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A Guide to Chicago’s South Side, Home of the New Obama Center

The Obama Presidential Center, opening on June 19, is poised to attract visitors to an often-overlooked area. Here’s what you’ll find in Hyde Park and beyond.

The $850-million Obama Presidential Center will introduce visitors to an area they have largely overlooked in favor of downtown attractions. Above, the sculpture of the Obamas outside the center was created by StudioEIS, a Brooklyn-based design studio.
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‘Operation Pushkin’: Paris Trial Puts Spotlight on Rare-Book Heists

One by one, valuable works by Russian masters like Pushkin and Gogol were disappearing from libraries across Europe. Now six defendants are being prosecuted.

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A sculpture of Alexander Pushkin made of paper at a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week.
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