With the future of a Lucas Museum on Chicago's lakefront in doubt, the city of Waukegan is asking the organizers to look a little to the north.
Waukegan Mayor Wayne Motley reached out to Mellody Hobson, a Chicago financial executive and the wife of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, about locating the proposed museum featuring digital, traditional and narrative art on Waukegan's lakefront, a city spokesman said on Wednesday.
— Chicago Tribune
After a shake-up Tuesday wherein Chicago-based Friends of the Parks (which was taking a 30-day break from suing to prevent the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from being built) announced that it wasn't going to budge on its anti-LMNA position, George Lucas announced that he was seriously considering other locations. According to the Chicago Tribune Lucas' wife, Mellody Hobson, noted that "this process has been co-opted and hijacked by a small special interest group." On Thursday, The Chicago Tribune reported that Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked his Law Department Wednesday afternoon to ask a federal appeals court to reject the Friends of the Parks case before it is tried. Could the force be with the industrial shoreline of Waukegan, Illinois, population 90K?
You can conquer the box-office, but stakeholder groups are a whole different echelon:
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Chicago needs another 20 + million albatross with limited potential to ever recoup the cost in economic activity. Let some other sucker pay for the museum.
Thought at first that was a tray of cafeteria food.
^ You're onto something, Carrera. They could sell molded plastic hor d'oeuvres trays based on that rendering in the gift shop. Separate dishes for your nuts, olives, etc. Maybe the central parabolic structure could be a special little lid to keep your guac fresh.
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