George Lucas is filling in some details on his planned art and movie memorabilia museum, including how the California native settled on Chicago as a location over San Francisco.
It was his wife’s idea.
The “Star Wars” creator told the Chicago Ideas Week forum on Friday that wife Mellody Hobson, a Chicago native and prominent businesswoman, had enough after four years of what he described as “doodling around” by San Francisco.
“Don’t worry. I’ll talk to the mayor. I’m sure he’ll love it,” she told him, according to Lucas.
And she was right. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has publicly embraced the idea, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is set to take its place in the Museum Campus on the city’s lakefront.
