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 ...

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, ...

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 104-year-old Chicago woman and centenarian who recently set a world record for being the oldest person ever to participate in a tandem skydive, has passed away just a week after her ...

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 ...

Two men were killed in separate skydiving crashes within three days in Illinois, officials said. The first death was reported the evening of July 7 when a 48-year-old man had an accident at Skydive ...

The incident took place at Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Rochelle, Ill. after both men deployed their parachutes and collided This is the second fatal skydiving incident to take place in Illinois ...

Melissa Nelson, Marketing Director for Skydive Chicago, tells John about what Skydive Chicago is, why Ottawa is a perfect area to experience skydiving, and the skydiving records they are going to try ...