Vince Vaughn Skydives at Chicago Air and Water Show
The 52nd annual Chicago Air and Water Show kicked off Saturday morning with local celebrity and mega movie star Vince Vaughn and his mom tandem skydiving from a plane. According to the Chicago Tribune, the pair jumped from an altitude of 12,000 feet with the parachute team Golden Knights strapped to their backs. Vaughn apparently felt queasy from the high altitude but landed safely on North Avenue Beach. The actor, who originally hails from the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, announced this was his first time ever skydiving and joked it “wasn’t exactly his hobby.” Vaughn wasn’t the first celebrity to skydive during the Air and Water show, either – two years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the event, famous Chicagoan Bill Murray also jumped with the Golden Knights. Despite the heat, the first of the two-day event drew a huge crowd of spectators to check out Vaughn and a variety of other daredevils stunts, and since it’s the largest free show of its kind in the U.S, as many as 2 million people have been known to flood the lakefront for weekend-long acrobatic air and land activities.
Posted by Garin Pirnia
