Welcome to the Reader’s morning briefing for Friday, July 8, 2016.
Weather: Partly cloudy, breezy
WBEZ finds that Chicago school construction furthers class and race segregation
Architect asks George Lucas to reconsider leaving Chicago, build museum at U.S. Steel site
New York-based architect Michael Sorkin penned an open letter to George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, asking them to reconsider their decision not to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago. The controversy over the museum dragged on for months, spurred by Lucas’ insistence that the building be located on the lakefront and opposition by Friends of the Park, and ultimately resulted in Lucas’s deciding to build his legacy museum on the west coast. In his letter, Sorkin pleads, “Come back to Chicago! In no other city will your museum provide remotely comparable stimulus and balm.” [Curbed Chicago]
