With decidedly mixed results, people have jumped from the residential towers.

In the last days of the 1960s, a 25-year-old man, in what may have been a hazing stunt, jumped about 40 feet from the first parking level of the west tower into the icy Chicago River. He did this twice.

Edwardo Fortuna, who lived on Kenmore Avenue, told police he had been told by “club members” to jump in the river five times or face physical harm.

After the first jump, a Marina City employee found Fortuna back on the parking ramp. He was given dry clothes and asked to leave. But ten minutes later, Fortuna was being fished out of the river by Frank Chavez and Tommie Scott.

June Fleck was 39 years old and engaged to Martin Richards, age 36, who lived in the east tower. Sadly, on May 19, 1967, Fleck fell to her death from the balcony of Richards’ 50th floor apartment.

On June 20, 1973, Sandra Easton, a 42-year-old computer programmer said to be despondent over the death of her mother, fell from her apartment on the 52nd floor of the east tower. It was her second attempt. She fell through the canvas roof of the ice skating rink and landed on the surface of the rink. It’s unknown exactly what happened, but she reportedly had tried to do this two years earlier.

On January 10, 1976, a 25-year-old man, Kenneth Parvin, who was not a resident, fell from the 57th floor of one of the towers.