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Third Fatality in Eight Days at Skydive Chicago

Greig landed on Skydive Chicago property south of the hangar. He was taken by ambulance to Community Hospital of Ottawa, where he was pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m.

An autopsy was scheduled for today and the Federal Aviation Administration was notified.

Greig was an experienced jumper, according to his father, Curt Greig, of Jacksonville.

"He loved skydiving and talked about it all the time", Curt Greig said in a subdued voice. He was there (Chicago Skydive) every weekend and loved that group (fellow parachutists) up there.

Curt Greig said his son was a friend of Deborah Luhmann and Steven Smith, who died Oct. 6 in a skydiving mishap at Chicago Skydive and attended their funerals last week.

Bruce Greig was a program installer with AGI based in Melrose Park.

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