Will Obama library affect Wooded Island serenity?

We now know that the Obama presidential library is to be located in Jackson Park. But what will the construction of and the presence of the library do to the serenity of and access to Wooded Island, which the library will, it seems, parallel? The choosing of the site in Jackson Park is another example of public land being turned over to private concerns.

For those of you in Washington Park, where the project would have done the most good, did your coffee turn cold Thursday morning as you read the news? Did you drain your cups to their bitter dregs?

John Vukmirovich, Lemont

Hypocrisy?

Oh, no! Someone is erecting a building in a lakefront park in Chicago! Daniel Burnham is turning in his grave! Quick, Friends of the Parks, sic ’em! Wait a minute, you mean there is no parking lot involved and it’s President Barack Obama’s building? Never mind! No hypocrisy here, right Chicago?

Tom Sharp, Lincoln Park

Where’s Donald’s critique?

Part of Melania Trump’s convention speech was plagiarized from Michelle Obama. Mrs. Trump also claimed to have a university degree from Slovenia when, in fact, she left after her freshman year. No degree. If she wasn’t Mrs. Trump, would Donald Trump call her “that lying Melania”?

Carole Gallotta, Lyons