Not Everyone Happy About Obama's Visit

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jul 22, 2009 6:20PM

President Obama will be in town this weekend for a fundraiser at the home of friend Penny Prtizker, but as Crain's Shia Kapos reports, not all the neighbors are thrilled, especially with the limited access and blocked off streets and alleys in the area of Pritzker's Orchard Ave. home.

Neighbors won't talk openly about the inconvenience, but off the record say they’re peeved.

“It’s annoying,” huffed one resident who, not surprisingly, isn’t invited to the big-money affair.

Yesterday, WBEZ covered a Secret Service exercise in connection with the visit that caught many off-guard when several helicopters landed on a baseball field in Lincoln Park, sending a huge cloud of dust up.