George Lucas Museum Coming to Chicago’s Lakefront; ‘I Am Humbled,’ He Says

Chicago has selected a site on the Museum Campus along Lake Shore Drive between Soldier Field and McCormick Place for the museum. Parking lots there are planned to be sunk into the ground to clear space for the museum above.

“It is a great privilege for the museum to be a custodian of this cherished land,” Lucas added.

Yet some opponents have a bad feeling about this. Friends of the Parks has opposed the site, and Cassandra Francis, the group’s president, says plans to sink the parking lots on the same location could be costly because of measures necessary to deal with the high water table near the lake. She also warned of possible site contamination in the digging, as it’s built on a landfill created in the years after the Chicago Fire.

At City Hall Tuesday, the mayor dismissed concerns about relocating tailgating for Bear fans outside Soldier Field.

The museum is projected to open in 2018.

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