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title: Skydive Blog | Chicagoland Skydiving Center | Jenny Lorek
description: Jenny lives in the Chicago suburbs. After her mom's cancer diagnosis, she left a career in Human Resources to work in Patient Access at a Chicagoland hospital. She participates in the Indoor Skydiving Adult Progression Program at iFly Chicago-Naperville, and continues to pursue new bucket list adventures each year -  including zip lining, snowboarding, SUP boarding, competitive dance, urban kayaking, and soon, wind surfing!
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# Jenny Lorek

Jenny lives in the Chicago suburbs. After her mom's cancer diagnosis, she left a career in Human Resources to work in Patient Access at a Chicagoland hospital. She participates in the Indoor Skydiving Adult Progression Program at iFly Chicago-Naperville, and continues to pursue new bucket list adventures each year - including zip lining, snowboarding, SUP boarding, competitive dance, urban kayaking, and soon, wind surfing!

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*This article is part of the [In Your Words] series. These are real stories, written by real people, who have made a tandem skydive at Chicagoland Skydiving Center. Our goal is to shine light on the many reasons people choose to jump out of perfectly good airplanes.* ***Want to share your story? **[Email us](mailto:events@skydivecsc.com)!*

My first skydiving experience was meant to help me celebrate a "vacation." But it turned out to be so much more. **Skydiving introduced me to a new *friend* I never expected I'd meet, at the time I needed it most. **

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