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This is the indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Waylon Wong.

A few weeks ago, not so far from where I live, the Obama presidential center opened

on the south side of Chicago.

We were going to do an episode on it, but our friends at Code Switch got there first.

So today we're going to share with you their excellent full half-hour episode on the new center

and its impact on the neighborhood around it.

Hope you enjoy.

It's good, y'all.

You're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR.

I'm Gene Demby.

And I'm Bea Parker.

Okay, so there's this school on the south side of Chicago called Hyde Park Academy.

It's really big, and it has a lot of the challenges that really big inner city schools with lots of poor kids have.

You know, old building, not a lot of resources.

You've heard that story before, yeah.

Just last month, some students there walked out of class to protest because three students died over the course of just one month.

That's horrible.

But the students who walked out said that the school had cut the community groups offering support services.

But right across the street, Stoney Island Avenue, from High Park Academy, is the sprawling,

ambitiously designed campus of the Obama Presidential Center.

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