If you've been counting down the days until you can step foot in George Lucas' future museum in Chicago, don't thank the famed creator of Star Wars for finally opening up his life's work to the public. Thank his wife.
Lucas told the audience at a forum for Chicago Ideas Week on Oct. 17 that his wife Mellody Hobson was responsible for getting the museum off the ground. The filmmaker originally planned for his museum to be located in his home state of California. However, after four years of what he called "doodling around" by the city of San Francisco, where he originally proposed the museum be built in 2013, Hobson, a Chicago native and businesswoman, suggested her hometown.
Lucas said Hobson told him, "Don't worry. I'll talk to the mayor. I'm sure he'll love it," according to The Associated Press.
