A man trying to take a photo from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan Avenue died after falling 22 feet down a smokestack, authorities said.
It took rescue crews four hours to remove the 23-year-old man from Minnesota, at one point cutting through a wall and wedging boards in the chute to keep him from falling farther down.
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There used to be this one guy on SSC that did urbex stuff. Sick photographer. He had a thing about base jumping off the buildings he photographed from. Guess how the story ends.