1 Dead, Several Injured in Shooting at Chicago-Area Hotel

BLOOMINGDALE, Ill.—A shooting early Saturday during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel, which has been a hot spot for crime, left one man, a rapper, dead and several other people wounded, police said. The shooting occurred during “some type of large get-together” among guests at the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, according to Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese. “It’s senseless to me that the two groups of people are coming for a party or a rap video or whatever and people end up shooting each other and people are dying,” he said. Investigators were still piecing together what happened, but “it appears that there were a couple of different groups attending different events at the hotel” when “something transpired and that’s when the shooting took place, mostly in the hallways at the hotel,” Giammarese added. People were fleeing the hotel when officers arrived about 2:35 a.m. in response …

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