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 number of children who are dying here in the city of Chicago is astronomical, says Black Star's director Phillip Jackson, quoting the figure of 605 children shot â wounded or killed â in the city over the last year and a half. Stop and think about it: these are children! This is a catastrophe. And it's happening right in front of our eyes.