An airline pilot who alleges a hotel employee refused to help him as he was being robbed has been given the all-clear to pursue a negligence claim. In a written opinion this week, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman held the Wyndham Grand Chicago Riverfront was obligated to assist Pankul Mathur after he purportedly alerted a member of housekeeping staff that a crime was being committed at the hotel on East Wacker Drive. “An innkeeper has a duty to take affirmative steps to aid its guests even when it did not create …