Rahm plan: Demolish McCormick Place East, put Lucas Museum there

By Fran Spielman, Chicago SunTimes

McCormick Place East — denounced by former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a “Berlin Wall” along the lakefront that destroyed the Chicago skyline — would be demolished to make way for movie mogul George Lucas’ museum and a giant green roof, under a mayoral compromise in the works.
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The proposal to tear down the massive convention center, rebuilt on the lakefront after the original burned down in 1967, would create 12 acres of lakefront park space.

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