UIC to release Obama-Ayers records
August 23, 2008
The University of Illinois at Chicago did an about-face Friday, agreeing to release records on Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit education reform group linked to 1960s radical William Ayers.
Although the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge had been at the UIC library since 2002, the school denied requests to review them, saying the donor had not given ownership rights to UIC.
Friday, UIC said it had fulfilled the terms of the gift and plans to make the records available Tuesday. Obama was the first chairman of the group Ayers helped start.