"Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas says Chicago won't be home to his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Lucas Museum officials say it will no longer consider Chicago as a potential site for the museum because of an ongoing federal lawsuit from a parks advocacy group. Instead, museum officials say the museum will be located in California.
Friends of the Parks has argued that the museum plans violate laws restricting development along Lake Michigan. The museum was to be built on a parking lot near Soldier Field, where the Chicago Bears play. They say it's unfortunate the film director has decided to take the museum to California rather than pick a different site within the city. The Friends of the Parks say choosing from several alternative sites away from the lakefront would have been a "true win-win."
Lucas says that no one benefits from the park group's "seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls it a "missed opportunity" that will cost the city millions of dollars in economic investment, thousands of jobs and educational opportunities for the city's youth.
