Nuns sue strip club near their Chicago-area convent

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of Chicago-area nuns is suing a strip club behind their convent, complaining of noise, glaring neon lights, fist fights and heaps of litter that include empty whiskey bottles and used condoms.

The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo said Illinois mandates a 1,000-foot (300-meter) buffer zone between adult entertainment venues and places of worship or schools. The suit, filed on Friday in Cook County, also names the village of Stone Park, where the strip club is located.
The $3 million Club Allure opened last September across the back fence of the convent, which has three chapels, a home for retired sisters, and a house for young women thinking about becoming nuns, the nuns' lawyers said.

"The Sisters have every right to pray and work peacefully without disruption from a strip club in their backyard," Peter Breen, the lawyer for the nuns, said in a statement.

A representative for the club was not immediately available for comment.

Stone Park attorney Dean Krone said on Tuesday that the 1,000-foot limit applies to most of the state, but a one-mile (1.6 km) restriction applies to suburban Cook County, which includes Stone Park.

He said the Cook County limit is unconstitutional because it would prohibit any kind of strip club in the small towns in the county, which would violate free speech protections.

Author says Jackie was bent on a divorce before JFK died

(Newser) – The year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy was determined to divorce him, according to a bombshell new unauthorized biography that's making some pretty explosive claims, as per the Daily Mail.

Jackie had, supposedly, told her mother back in 1956, "I just can’t see myself spending the rest of my life with Jack Kennedy. It’s not going to happen." By 1962, Marilyn Monroe's sexy "Happy Birthday" performance for JFK embarrassed Jackie and was the final straw, according to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams," which claims Jackie's early diaries as one of its sources. The book also delves into her alleged affair with Bobby Kennedy, and, amusingly, notes that early in her relationship with JFK, she complained of his "funny body, skinny, with toothpick legs."

Jackie had also been determined to divorce earlier in their marriage, the book claims, after surprising her then-senator husband in his office only to find him in a sexual situation with a Senate Office Building temp, Peggy Ashe. But father-in-law Joe Kennedy met with her in New York, and he offered her (as has been previously reported) $1 million to stay married to his son; Jackie told him it would cost him $20 million if Jack "brings home any venereal disease from any of his sluts," the book claims.

Soon after, the couple had a heated fight over Jack's continuing infidelity, which the book says ended with Jack having Jackie committed so she could get electroshock therapy. She still wanted out after that, however, and even considered suicide, the book says. Author Darwin Porter, who co-authored the book with Danforth Prince, also revealed to us that Liz Taylor slept with Ronald Reagan and JFK, Vivien Leigh was bisexual and Humphrey Bogart thought he was gay.