Village trustees tried to stop the club from being built, but a judge allowed it.

Nuns say a strip club planned beside their convent is not safe.

Catholic nuns living in Stone Park, Ill., are furious with a planned strip club being built next door.

The multimillion-dollar strip club is slated to open and has done everything according to the law, and according to the Pocono Record, the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo said Tuesday they had been told the building being erected just a stone's throw from the Melrose Park convent's vegetable garden was a restaurant.

"But officially we received the news it is a gentleman's cabaret," Sister Marissonia Daltoe told myFOXchicago.com.

"We are religious. We espouse certain beliefs. As Catholic religious we take vows, and we have something like this totally opposite going on," she added. "It's not safe."

The owners of the strip club maintain that the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo have nothing to worry about.

"It's entertainment for mature audiences," owner Bob Itzkow said.

The Christian post reveals Itzkow denies that the new business is a strip club, but argues that it is a $3 million, 18,000-square-foot upscale cabaret with nudity.

The building is soundproof and the lighting was designed to minimize the disturbances to neighbors, he said.

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Stone Park mayor Ben Mazzulla said the village trustees tried to stop the club from being built, voting against it twice, but the Record reveals "Itzkow sued, saying the zoning allows it, and a judge allowed it to open."

Village officials said they had no choice.