Obama Center engineer fires back at online critics ripping architecture as 'monstrous insult'

CHICAGO — One of the people who helped design the towering Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's South Side told Fox News Digital that boldness was the 44th president's goal in the construction of what has become a polarizing finished product. "The architects knew with the client that they wanted to do something bold at the top of the tower, and the vision of the speech came to life," Chris Bird, a Washington, D.C. based structural engineer told Fox News Digital just before the site open