Authorities say he was trying to take a photo from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan

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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.