CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says “Star Wars” creator George Lucas’ decision to build his museum of art and movie memorabilia will give the city a museum campus as impressive as the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C.

Emanuel spoke to reporters on Wednesday, a day after Lucas announced that he’d selected Chicago over San Francisco and Los Angeles as the site for his much anticipated Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

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