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.
Chicago has seen more than 2,000 shooting incidents so far this year â a 48 percent increase over the same period last year and a 73 percent spike from the same period two years ago. Killings in Chicago have shot up more than 300 percent compared with this time last year, according to Chicago police statistics.