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CHICAGO NEWS
• Who has the top Museum in the world? Oh that title belongs to Chicago!!! The Art Institute of Chicago took top honors beating Paris’ Louvre and NYC Met Museum to win TripAdvisor’s “Traveler’s Choice” awards. [DNA INFO]
• Tara Zahr of University of Chicago and Mark Hersam of Northwestern University are part of the 2014 class of MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellows Fellows will each receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years. [MAC FOUNDATION]
NATIONAL NEWS
• The rise of Web activists like The Food Babe Vani Hari is chronicled on how they pressure companies, such as Subway and Pepsi Co Gatorade to change their ways. [BLOOMBERG]
WORLD NEWS
• A collapse at a church hostel that belonged to Nigerian TV evangelist TB Joshua collapsed in Lagos last week, killing at least 67 South Africans but no count on complete death toll. At least 130 people were rescued in the guesthouse that served foreigners. [BBC]
• 30 custom-made Rolls-Royce Phantoms go for $20 million and one single person just made that purchase, WOWZA! Making it the world’s single largest order of Rolls Royces ever. Casino owner Stephen Hung bought then for his yet to open Macau resort, the Louis XIII. [WASHINGTON POST]
SPORTS
• Minnesota Vikings’ Adrian Peterson has been added to the NFL’S Exempt/Commissioner’s Permission list, deactivated by the team amidst his child abuse case and multiple sponsors dropping out. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• High-interest loans by private equity firms to finance deals is the subject of scrutiny by The US Federal Reserve and they have asked Credit Suisse to address the issue. “In a letter to Credit Suisse, known as a Matters Requiring Immediate Attention notification, the Federal Reserve said that it had found problems with the bank’s adherence to guidance issued last year, in which banks were warned to avoid deals that included too much debt or too few protections for the lenders in case of a default.” [REUTERS]
CELEBRITIES
• $125,000 a month is the price of actor Robert De Niro’s new digs at 15 Centra Park West. The two condo apartments combined into one occupies a whole floor of the tower. [PAGE SIX]
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling welcome a new baby
FASHION
• Razzle Dazzle. Nick Cannon wore custom made Jason of Beverly Hills shoes worth $2 million on last night’s America’s Got Talent show. The Tom Ford shoes, created by Jason Arasheben, boasts more than 14,000 full-cut round white diamonds set onto white gold, with a total carat weight of 340 carats. [WWD]
LOOK OF THE DAY
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SOCIAL HAPPENINGS:
Ellevate and PrettyQuick are teaming up NEXT WEDNESDAY September 17th for a Night of Business and Beauty. 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
GlowOut Salon, 160 N Halsted St
What to Expect –
Entrepreneurial Q&A about PrettyQuick
Cocktails + Mingling with likeminded Women
1 FREE Beauty Service (scheduled in advance)
FREE Professional Makeup Tutorial by Bobbi Brown artists
$35 in beauty credits
“Happy Gone Mad Hour” on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Every Wednesday-Friday from 4-7pm, diners will have their choice of fresh seafood at the restaurant’s Raw Bar. The deal includes $2.00 shrimp cocktails, $2.00 lobster cocktail, $2.00 scallop crudo, $2.00 king crab legs and $1.00 oysters. Raw Bar items are available for pre-order with larger groups of 15 or more.
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