In 2015, NBC 5 first revealed the apparent pattern of injuries. Parkgoers told us of scary moments after riding down the slide. Since our first report, NBC 5 Responds has uncovered a steady stream of similar claims.
“I heard my bones crack. Like, I just knew it was broken,” Mayra Mandujano told NBC 5 in 2019. Mandujano is among the more than 80 parkgoers who’ve reported injuries connected to MDP and its slides. She is also among those suing the Chicago Park District.
“Young adults, older adults, mothers, fathers, grandmothers. People who go down with their children, people who go down without their children are all having exactly the same injury in exactly the same part of the turn in the slide,” attorney Chris Norem, of the plaintiffs firm Parente & Norem, told NBC 5 in 2019. The firm currently has more than a dozen pending cases related to injuries reported at Maggie Daley Park.