A room at Crowne Plaza London Docklands. Originally branded as Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983. Within a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain (still owned at the time by Holiday Inn).
Americans have a better chance of being killed in Chicago than U.S. troops do in Afghanistan, figures from the nationâs third-largest city show. This year 228 Chicago residents have been killed, while the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan during the same period is 144, The Huffington Post reported.
The busiest neighborhood for Chicago gun violence is Austin, where so far 80 people have been gunned down. The neighborhood, which is out on the West Side about four miles from where the 44 th president used to live, counts a current population of just 100,000, which means it has a gun-death rate of 82 per 100,000, a number that simply cannot be believed.