Provided
Dazzling drawings, a cheerleader in the mayor’s office, and a possible new crown jewel for a lakefront already known as the “glory of Chicago.”
It sounds a lot like the last few weeks, when the Bears proposed a new, publicly owned $4.7 billion lakefront development south of Soldier Field.
It also describes Chicago in 2014, when there were big plans for another major tourist attraction in that same general location: the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, widely referred to as the “Star Wars Museum.”
It never happened — not in Chicago, anyway.