It looms over the poverty-stricken South Side of Chicago like a vast meteorite that has just plunged to Earth and embedded itself in the Windy City.
Comparisons have included a mausoleum, a ‘giant trash can’ and even the Death Star, the grim and deadly giant space station from the Star Wars films. And with a final cost of $850million, it has a price tag to match.
The granite-clad eyesore has sparked a furious row with locals who dismiss it as no more than a monument to a US President’s overweening ego and arrogance.
The statesman in question, however, isn’t – as might be expected – Donald Trump but Barack Obama, a politician not nearly so accustomed to such ugly accusations.
