The Lucas Museum has been looking for a home in all the wrong places. Following months of fiery debate over the future of the museum?s proposed lakefront location, George Lucas announced that he is abandoning plans to build the project in Chicago and will instead return to looking for a site in California. This is the second failed location for the museum, after being rejected by San Francisco?s Presidio Trust in early 2014.

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The Lucas Museum has been looking for a home in all the wrong places. Following months of fiery debate over the future of the museum?s proposed lakefront location, George Lucas announced that he is abandoning plans to build the project in Chicago and will instead return to looking for a site in California. This is the second failed location for the museum, after being rejected by San Francisco?s Presidio Trust in early 2014.
Courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts

The commission for the 300,000 square foot (27870 square meter) museum on 17 acres of Chicago lakefront property was won in July of 2014 by MAD Architects for their white, sculptural ?mountain? topped by a ?metallic crown,? and was quickly approved by the Chicago City Council, the Plan Commission and the Chicago Park District, the owners of the land. But the proposal went on hold in November of that year, when the group Friends of the Parks filed a federal lawsuit halting construction.As it stands now, the site in questi...