Lawsuit: Bedbugs in suburban hotel force woman to cut dreadlocks

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BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter January 23, 2014 8:20PM

Donna Brumfield with her waist-length dreadlocks before an October 2012 bedbug incident at Holiday Inn Express in Palatine.

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Updated: January 24, 2014 12:06AM

An assistant tennis coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Donna Brumfield, and her group checked into the Palatine Holiday Inn Express in October 2012 for a tennis meet.

She ended up meeting bedbugs, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. Before the ensuing ordeal ended, Brumfield was forced to chop off her cherished, waist-length dreadlocks she had grown for 13 years, the lawsuit alleges.

If you know how long it takes to grow dreadlocks, you understand the trauma of losing my hair, says Brumfield, of the south suburbs, who is in her 50s.

Harder to explain is the trauma that affects travel for me now. I travel a lot for my work, and every time I have to stay at a hotel I just get filled with anxiety, she said.

In the Chicago area named first in bedbug infestations for the second year in a row Brumfields lawsuit is exemplary of growing litigation over the creepy critters that have become a nuisance nationally, according to legal and bedbug-eradication experts.

The majority of the suits are between hotels and guests, or tenants and landlords.

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