Karla Gress said she was in her hotel room at Holiday Inn Chicago Northshore - Skokie when an on-duty security guard raped her in 2013.
SKOKIE, Ill. -- A Texas woman who says she was raped in her Skokie hotel room by a worker years ago has been awarded nearly $2 million this week.
Even though it has taken years, Gress said she pushed forward, thinking about other women in her life, including her 23-year-old daughter. "This was for the hotel and their failure to have policies and procedures, failure to have written policies and procedures that guide their hotel employees," said Brian Monico, the plaintiff's attorney.
While he wasn't charged in this case, Gress' attorney said the guard was fired more than a year later for a different incident. "We've had multiple state's attorney's look and reopen the case, for whatever reason, they would not pursue it," Chwarzynski Jr. said.
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