Man dies after fall into Chicago hotel smokestack
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities have identified the 23-year-old man who died after falling into a smokestack atop a Chicago hotel.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office says the victim is Nicholas Wieme (WEE'-mee) of Chicago
Authorities say he was trying to take a photo from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan Avenue when he fell 22 feet down the smokestack. He was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital early Thursday.
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