The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
An independent alderman who might challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared his opposition Friday to the mayor’s plan to offer movie mogul George Lucas free lakefront land to build a new interactive museum.Yet, powerful Democrats want to talk about inequality!
Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd) said Emanuel’s handpicked site selection committee “took the easy way out” when it chose surface parking lots serving Soldier Field and the lakefront museum campus to house the Lucas Museum of Cultural Arts if Chicago wins a heated competition with the movie mogul’s home town of San Francisco.
Lucas would be offered the 17-acre, 750,000 square foot site between Soldier Field and McCormick Place East for $1 a year in a leasing arrangement similar to the city’s other lakefront museums.