Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The man who died in an Ottawa, Illinois, skydiving accident on July 7 was identified by the LaSalle County coroner as 48-year-old ...

A pair of world records are in jeopardy this week as members of Skydive Chicago attempt to set new marks in vertical and traditional formation skydiving. Skydive Chicago has arranged for 450 skydivers ...

Dorothy Hoffner, a lifelong Chicagoan and centenarian who recently set a world record for being the oldest person to ever participate in a tandem skydive, has passed away just a week after her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This photo provided by Daniel Wilsey shows Dorothy Hoffner, 104, falling through the air with tandem jumper Derek Baxter as ...

CHICAGO - A 104-year-old Chicago woman who set an unofficial world record for skydiving last week has passed away. Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person ever to tandem skydive out of an airplane ...

Dorothy Hoffner gained international attention for her Oct. 1 jump Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Dorothy ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (WLS) -- All this week, a group of skydivers is working to break a world record in the Chicago area. They're trying to create the largest "vertical" skydive. Two-hundred sky-divers need ...

OTTAWA, Ill. — Jumping from a plane, not ideal right? Well, the divers at Skydive Chicago would tell you it’s an experience everyone needs to have. The skydivers met last week for the first time in ...

Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner’s close friend, ...

Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner's close friend, ...