Hotness in the News by SociaLifeChicago is your daily intel for quick news stories to get your morning started and get you up to date on what’s going on in Chicago and the world. Make small talk, better.
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi
CHICAGO NEWS
• The vacant St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church at the corner of Sedgwick and Locus street in the Gold coast neighborhood will turn into a 50-unit, six-story condo building pending a rezoning approval. [DNA INFO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• The death of one of the heir to the Getty oil fortune, 47-year-old Andrew Getty in his hollywood hills home is being investigated. He was found naked from the waist down in the bathroom and appeared to have suffered some sort of blunt force trauma. [WASHINGTON POST]
• The debate over Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which is seen as discriminatory to gays, continues as legislators in Arkansas approved a similar measure that Gov. Asa Hutchinson is expected to sign. Indiana Governor, Mike Pence, who strongly defended the Indiana statute that grants individuals and businesses legal grounds to defend themselves against claims of discrimination, wants legislation to clarify that the religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination. [WASHINGTON POST]
WORLD NEWS
• The world’s oldest person, Misao Okawa, has died at the age of 117. [NPR]
SPORTS
• Top NFL Draft prospect and Heisman winner Marcus Mariota opting to watch it play out on television with his family in Hawaii; Telling the NFL that it’s important to him that he be with those closest to him when his name is called on April 30. With the draft taking place in Chicago this year, some of the marquee names of the first day, which is broadcast in primetime, will only be seen via satellite. [NY DAILY NEWS]
•Ryan Newman’s No. 31 team has been issued one of the largest penalties by NASCAR having found they illegally manipulated tires. The sanctions include a 75-point deduction, a $125,000 fine for crew chief Luke Lambert and six-race suspensions for Lambert, tire technician James Bender and team engineer Philip Surgen. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• Sears, in an effort to raise much needed cash, is selling 254 properties, most of them occupied by Sears or Kmart stores and plans to then lease them back. it plans to raise more than $2.5 billion and also starts the process of unlocking the value of Sears’s real estate for shareholders. [WSJ]
CELEBRITIES
• Marion Cotillard will create her first jewelry collection for Chopard; The French actress will create the first “green” offering for the house, using ethically sourced coloured gemstones. [VOGUE UK]
FASHION
• Karl Lagerfeld, to highlight the exquisite work of Chanel’s Métiers d’Art companies, presented the Chanel’s Métiers d’Art in front of celebrities such as Julianne Moore, Beyoncé, Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Paradis with daughter Lily-Rose Depp, Nicola Peltz performance by Pharrell and Cara Delevingne. [STYLE]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Julianne Moore
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