Site over rail yards pushed for Lucas Museum

Friends of the Parks on Wednesday urged movie mogul George Lucas to consider building his $400 million museum on the west side of Lake Shore Drive on a deck above rail yards similar to the way Millennium Park was built.

"If it makes sense to build a parking garage on that site, why not just build the whole campus there. It's not part of the public trust doctrine. It's not affected by that. It's on the west side of Lake Shore Drive. Why not just put it there and all of this trouble would go away?" said Juanita Irizarry, executive director of Friends of the Parks.

"It still allows for the museum to have a prominent place. It has all the same benefits to the economy. It's similarly accessible. It just doesn't take public trust land. We would not have legal recourse, nor would we pursue a lawsuit."

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