Holey shite!!! Billion dollar museum.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,6741871.story
Lucas museum coming to Chicago
By Melissa HarrisTribune reporter
4:21 p.m. CDT, June 24, 2014
“Star Wars” creator
George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the future home of his collection of art and movie memorabilia, according to a spokeswoman for the museum.
A vote by the museum’s board, which would make the decision official, is expected Wednesday. The board also expected to change the name of the museum from the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts.
Pending approval of the Chicago Plan Commission, Lucas' institution would be located on parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place and would open in 2018.
It would house a collection that includes valuable Norman Rockwell paintings, examples of the Hollywood special effects he pioneered at Industrial Light & Magic, and memorabilia such as a scale model of the Millennium Falcon, the fictional spacecraft commanded by Han Solo.
The decision to select Chicago reflects both a bungling of the billionaire’s legacy project by national park officials in San Francisco as well as an aggressive lobbying effort by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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