Illinois Event Organizers Sued Over Man’s Tent-Collapse Death

The wife of a man killed when a tent collapsed at a suburban Chicago festival has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.

The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that Nicole Nincic filed the lawsuit in Cook County court. She alleges organizers of the Wood Dale Prairie Fest and a tent vendor should not have herded visitors under a poorly secured tent on Aug. 2, as a powerful storm approached.

Thirty-five-year-old Steven Nincic was struck and killed by a falling tent pole; 22 others were injured.

Three of the injured are included as plaintiffs in the complaint, which names McCook-based Classic Party Rentals and Chicago Special Events Management as defendants. The lawsuit seeks a minimum of $50,000.

The city was not named in the lawsuit.