A 38-year old woman from Bartlett missed her mark at Rochelle Municipal Airport while skydiving which resulted in a leg injury.
The incident took place at around 1:45 yesterday afternoon as the skydiver ended up in a corn field in the 200 block of Veterans Parkway, east of Illinois 251 North. The field is about a mile north of the airport.
A police officer found the woman about 30 yards in the field from Veterans Parkway. She could not walk do to the leg injury.
The skydiver was transported by ambulance to the airport where she was flown by helicopter to a Rockford hospital for treatment of her injury.