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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Struett

At age 104, skydiving Chicagoan sets world record

It’s never too late to cross something off your bucket list.

At 104 years old, Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person to parachute from a plane on Sunday.

The lifelong Chicagoan pushed aside her walker to board a plane at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, Illinois, about 80 miles southwest of Chicago, saying “there was nothing scary about it.”

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