Rahm Emanuel Shows Cautious Confidence in Chicago's Obama Library Bids
Failure to win the competition against New York or Hawaii would be a political embarrassment.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel upon Obama's arrival on Air Force One at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, May 29, 2013.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seeking to maintain a winning political issue for his re-election, Monday simultaneously downplayed the prospects of his city failing to win the Obama presidential library and then warned that the risk of failure is still real.
"I wouldn't say trouble," he told reporters when asked about Chicago's two bids in a competition for the library site that pits the city against universities in New York and Honolulu. Yet he warned that more work needs to be done to edge out the competition.