‘Living, breathing legacy:’ Sneak peek into the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

New video into the sprawling Obama Presidential Center in Chicago revealed a sneak peek of what the venue will look like.

New video into the sprawling Obama Presidential Center in Chicago revealed a sneak peek of what the venue will look like, which includes everything from a full-size basketball court, a branch of the Chicago Public Library, acres of green space and a full museum highlighting Obama’s years in the White House.

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“It is a living, breathing legacy, because our hope is is that people bring change back to their communities,” Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said in an interview with NBC News.

The campus, located at 6001 S. Stony Island Ave. on the South Side, officially opens to the public on Juneteenth, more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project. But tens of thousands of people — friends and family of museum staff, students and journalists — have already been offered a sneak peek at the nearly 20-acre campus as crews finish final art installations and landscaping.