It has been reported by Fox the mastermind behind legendary ‘Star Wars’ George Lucas has announced to a Chicago Ideas Week forum on Friday, October 17th, that his wife Mellody Hobson, native of Chicago and prominent businesswomen, has arranged with the city the plans to establish an art museum. His wife apparent had enough of what she described as “doodling around” with the city of San Francisco. The filmmaker announced this last June that he had picked Chicago, but it wasn’t until recently we discovered the influence of his wife.

“Don’t worry. I’ll talk to the mayor. I’m sure he’ll love it,” she apparently told Lucas and to her credit she was correct. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has publicly embraced the museum idea and has since seeded the plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The museum is set to be built in the Museum Campus on the city’s lakefront.

“It’s going to be organic architecture, connected to the ground. And it will look like a living thing,” he said in the conversation with interviewer Charlie Rose at the Cadillac Palace Theatre.

Lucas confessed he wants to showcase his collection of popular art, including his famous illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth as well as works by Lucas’s visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic.”Illustrative art and narrative art has been short-shrifted,” he said. “Critics weren’t dealing with narrative art. They were interested in modern.”

“The city will provide the land, but Lucas said he would bankroll construction and the endowment to maintain it. I pay for the whole thing and the endowment, and everything,” Lucas said.

“You can afford a museum?” Rose asked wittingly in the interview.

“Yeah, I can,” Lucas answered and so marked the beginning of the Chicago museum of Narrative Art.