Underage party causes $10,000 damage to hotel

Two men were charged with causing as much as $10,000 in damage to a room at the O’Hare Inn and Suites during a so-called birthday party that involved alcohol and minors.

Piotr Meres, 29, of Edmund Street in Chicago, appeared Saturday in Cook County Circuit Court in Rolling Meadows and was charged with criminal damage to property, a felony, and renting a hotel room used to provide alcohol to people under age 21, a misdemeanor.

The party reportedly was discovered early Saturday morning when a guest at the O’Hare Inn and Suites, 4101 N. Mannheim Road, Schiller Park, complained of loud noises coming from a nearby room. When police arrived, they found the walls, door, furniture, bedsheets, and other items damaged during a birthday party, said Assistant States Attorney Lesley Gool.

While police were at the hotel, they received a call from Franklin Park police, who apprehended a man at a nearby gas station who was overheard by those officers as he bragged about a fight at the hotel, the police report said.

Karol Zielinski, 18, of Ozanam Avenue in Chicago, was charged with misdemeanor battery to an officer, when Zielinski allegedly head-butted the officer and a scuffle ensued. Zielinski was also charged with criminal damage to property.

Zielinski’s bond was set at $15,000 and bond for Meres, a father of two children, was set at $20,000.

Both men were ordered to appear for a hearing at 9 a.m. April 26 in Room 108 at the Rolling Meadows courthouse.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many other people were in the hotel room. A call to the hotel manager was not immediately returned.