Report: Obama’s library will be twice as popular as Reagan’s

Published June 3, 2014 5:14pm ET



The University of Chicago, dueling with schools in Hawaii and New York to grab President Obama‘s presidential library, is crowing over an economic study that suggests theirs would be about twice as popular than the nation’s No. 1 facility, the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, Calif.

The study from the Anderson Economic Group and commissioned by U of C, predicted that plunking the Obama school in a big city that’s home to the first family will help draw visitors and make it the top presidential library destination.

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