“It wouldn’t be Chicago if we didn’t have complaints about everything … People are definitely excited about the library, without a doubt, but they are concerned about ‘how does it impact me?’ … Chicagoans are like that about everything. . . . It means that we care about what’s going to happen in our neighborhood.” Obama’s tenure as president might seem like the low stress years once Chicago is done debating his library plans. “In what local pundits are calling the irony of ironies, Obama — who cut his teeth as a South Side community organizer — is now in the bull’s eye of the area’s community organizers.”

+ CityLab: Hope and Change Collide on the South Side.

+ Obama even got called for Jury duty on Wednesday. And showed up.