Ill. Girl Drowns in Hotel Pool

Chicago Tribune

Mar. 15—An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday for an 11-year-old Chicago girl who died after being found in a pool at a hotel and resort in Westmont, but investigators said there did not appear to be anything suspicious about her death.

"This is a tragic accident," Westmont police Sgt. Tim Radtke said. "There is no evidence of foul play."

Shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, Radtke said, police and paramedics responded to 911 calls from the Hilton Chicago-Oak Brook Hills Resort at 3500 Midwest Road, where they found bystanders and hotel employees performing CPR on the victim, Daniya Deloach, of the 3000 block of West Flournoy Avenue in Chicago.

Radtke said the girl was swimming at the hotel pool with relatives and that adult family members were present, but it was unclear who noticed she was in distress.

Daniya was taken first to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove and was later transferred to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. She was pronounced dead shortly before midnight Tuesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Neither the girl's family nor hotel officials could be reached for comment.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating "allegations of neglect" in the girl's death, a spokeswoman said in an email.

The agency has an open, unrelated case involving the girl's mother, but "during the incident involving Daniya's death, the child was visiting with relatives and the mother was not present," said the spokeswoman, who asked not to be identified by name.