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An aerial view of the Obama Presidential Center.

Outdoor venues on the Obama Presidential Center Campus are one-of-a-kind. Your guests will enjoy a sustainable landscape, brimming with new life and unique opportunities to engage with nature.

Outdoor rental spaces at-a-glance

Rental spaceCapacityAvailability
Great Lawn 2,000+ Subject to city permits and approvals
The Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden and Garden Classroom 30-60 people Daytime and evening

Great Lawn rental

Wow your guests with sweeping views of the Obama Presidential Center’s campus and Jackson Park’s beautiful lagoon when you rent this sprawling, gently sloping space designed to bring large groups of people together – perfect for weddings and concerts!

Overview

  • 58,000 square feet

  • Availability subject to city permits and approvals

A rendering of the Great Lawn at the Obama Presidential Center. The Great Lawn is an outdoor hill area. The picture takes place at dusk. On the Lawn are large green trees. In the image are several people sitting on the lawn staring a a large projected movie screen.
Great Lawn digital rendering with projection screen

Perfect for:

  • Weddings receptions or ceremonies

  • Concerts

  • Outdoor dinner

The Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden and Garden Classroom rental

Located on top of the Obama Presidential Center’s Chicago Public Library branch, your guests will enjoy picturesque views in this warm and welcoming space inspired by Mrs. Obama’s White House Kitchen Garden! 

The Garden Classroom is an ideal backdrop for smaller-scale dining events and hands-on workshops

Overview

  • Classroom: 30 capacity

  • Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden: 60 capacity, seated 

  • 800 square feet

  • Available for day or evening events.

An animation shows people ranging of all ages and skin tones, enjoying the Obama Presidential Center
The Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden digital rendering

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an outdoor garden on the Obama Presidential Center campus; in the garden are long wooden planters, in each planter is a different – indiscernible – vegetable. Around the garden, people are walking around: in the center is a woman holding the hand of a small child. On the right hand side, an elderly man in a wheelchaired is being wheeled around by a younger woman.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden digital rendering

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A digital rendering of a concrete courtyard with picnic tables and umbrellas, bordered by foliage.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden digital rendering, patio view

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Perfect for:

  • Experiential corporate events

  • Social celebrations

Audiovisual amenities:

  • Assisted Listening System (ALS)

  • Video camera production controller and switcher

  • Ceiling microphone array

  • Ceiling-mounted PTZ cameras

  • Distributed ceiling speakers

  • Rack-mounted computer

  • 98” wall-mount display

  • Above-display PTZ camera

  • Google Meet hardware

  • Wireless microphones

  • Wall-mount touch panel

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