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 lowest incidence of murder is in the Northwest, where murder rates range from four per 100,000 in North Dakota to just 1.8 in Idaho and Utah. Chicago has more murders than any other city in the United States, surpassing even New York, which has three times as many inhabitants, the figures show. In a crime report released by the bureau, it was revealed that there were 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up from 431 in 2011. New York registered 419, down from 515.