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Vince Vaughn To Skydive At Air & Water Show This Weekend

First Posted: 8/10/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Actor Vince Vaughn at a Chicago Cubs game (file).

While we might be flyover country for some Hollywood stars (their loss), we do get our share of Vince Vaughn sightings here in Chicago. Whether it's at the United Center watching a Bulls or Blackhawks game, or around town filming a new movie (as he's doing this summer with Ron Howard's The Dilemma), the 'burbs-raised Vaughn spends plenty of time in the city.

This weekend, Chicagoans will get another chance to spot the comedy star -- this time on a flyover of his own, at 12,000 feet in the air.

Vaughn will be taking part in the 52nd annual Air & Water Show, a weekend-long aerobatics festival that takes place along Lake Michigan, according to the Chicago Tribune. While it officially stretches from Fullerton to Oak Streets, the focal point is North Avenue Beach.

It's on that beach that Vaughn will land, after a tandem skydive with the Army's Golden Knights.

Every year in the festival's history, the Knights have performed dazzling group skydiving performances. These days, they have cans of red smoke attached to their feet, tracing their aerial acrobatics as they plummet from the skies.

Vince Vaughn will join the Knights in the weekend's kick-off performance, this Saturday at 11:00 a.m.

But he's not the first Chicago actor to take the plunge. Two years ago, for the Air & Water Show's fiftieth anniversary, Bill Murray tandem-dived with the Golden Knights.

Watch video from Murray's jump:

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While we might be flyover country for some Hollywood stars (their loss), we do get our share of Vince Vaughn sightings here in Chicago. Whether it's at the United Center watching a Bulls or Blackhawks...
While we might be flyover country for some Hollywood stars (their loss), we do get our share of Vince Vaughn sightings here in Chicago. Whether it's at the United Center watching a Bulls or Blackhawks...
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KataVideo
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09:33 PM on 08/12/2010
maybe when he was young and thin, but now that's he's swollen up like a manatee perhaps it's not such a good idea
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06:09 PM on 08/12/2010
Skydiving without a chute would be an appropriat­e penance for some of the movies he's made.
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Chi--townfool
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10:21 AM on 08/12/2010
He was filming his movie outside my house this guy Q who worked for him was a total tool!
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Paul Klein
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11:10 AM on 08/11/2010
Story I hear is that last movie Vaughn was filming in Chicago he came into the director's trailer and demanded that he remove all the Obama posters or he'd walk. Director told him to go ahead, he hadn't had a good movie in a while and walking would permanentl­y mar him. Vaughn caved. (Arrogant dick seems accurate.)
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07:20 PM on 08/10/2010
My little niece (16 yrs old) got dissed by Kevin James & Vince in Chicago a couple weekends ago when she asked them for a picture. Kevin told her that they were enjoying "private time" that particular night, and then walked off. Kind of d__k move if you ask me.
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Faust Eddie
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05:38 PM on 08/10/2010
VV... I like the fact that you bleed Chicago...­. see you at Aragon (Vampire weekend!)
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Monk2001
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05:36 PM on 08/10/2010
VV rules... he's hysterical­... but not a talker.
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