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If you have been anywhere near the Obama Presidential Center this week, you have noticed the security. That’s because, Barack and Michelle Obama aside, Bono and the Edge were also coming to Hyde Park,

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If you have been anywhere near the Obama Presidential Center this week, you have noticed the security. That’s because, Barack and Michelle Obama aside, Bono and the Edge were also coming to Hyde Park, and Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen, and Questlove, and John Legend, and Marc Anthony, and Eddie Vedder, and Christina Aguilera, and, oh right, three former presidents, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Joe Biden, with former first ladies.

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