The multi-billion dollar creator of franchises like "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" has set his mind on building a museum dedicated to film for a few years now, and after the project was scraped in his native San Francisco over lack of support in the Bay Area, the George Lucas Museum's Chicago building seems closer and closer - and the project will be decided on next week.
The George Lucas Museum in Chicago is no more than a project at this point, and next week the Windy City's Council Zoning Committee is scheduled to vote on the huge building, which is set to be built seaside on Lake Michigan.
According to local outlet ABC7, the George Lucas Museum in Chicago had been scheduled for a Wednesday vote, as the project, just south of Soldier Field, has been met with some problems in the city, as nonprofit organization Friends of the Parks is so deadest against it, it's actually suing against the construction moving forward because of how much parkland the building would take.
As The Chicago Tribune reports, the George Lucas Museum in Chicago will now be voted on October 28 because there are still a few things that need to be worked out in the Council ahead of the vote, with one single councilperson against the project so far: North Side Ald. Ameya Pawar.
"I'm sure it's going to be a great addition," said Pawar of the George Lucas Museum in Chicago project, which is planned to have a 300,000 square area right next to the lake. "But the issue for me is, what happens when somebody else comes in and wants to build a museum? There's a reason the City Council passed the Lakefront Protection Ordinance."
According to Comic Book, if the George Lucas Museum in Chicago is approved and manages to circumvent the lawsuit, it should open in 2019 and 2020 under the full name Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, as an homage to cinema well beyond the filmmaker's own contributions to motion pictures.
