A federal lawsuit filed alleges one of the main companies involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center racially discriminated against one of the project's Black American-owned local subcontractors, leaving them $40 million in the red and at risk of bankruptcy. But the company in charge of engineering and professional design services for the center pointed the finger right back, saying in an attached memo that construction costs and delays "were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience" of that subcontractor, II in One. Robert McGee, the owner of II in One, a South Side company that provided concrete and rebar services for the center starting in 2021, sued New York-based Thornton Tomasetti in federal court earlier this month, seeking to be paid back for roughly $40 million in construction costs the local company covered itself along with its joint venture partners.