Alumna dies in porch collapse in Chicago

EVANSVILLE -- An IU alumna and Indiana native who died in a weekend porch collapse in Chicago that killed 12 was described as an outgoing woman who moved to Chicago to pursue a business career.\nMargaret Haynie, 25, was attending a party with her boyfriend and a close friend from high school, Amy Chumley, when a third-floor apartment porch gave way early Sunday and crushed those on the second-floor porch.\n"We're going to miss that gal. She was very special," said Margaret Haynie's father, Kenneth G. Haynie Jr., an Evansville lawyer.\nMargaret Haynie and Amy Chumley were 1996 graduates of Evansville's Bosse High School.\nDebbie Chumley, Amy Chumley's mother, said the two women were preparing to leave the party when the porch collapsed on the city's north side, near Wrigley Field.\nMargaret Haynie, hired in 2000 by Bank One in Chicago after graduating with a business degree from IU, had a "big personality" said Lloyd Winnecke, a family friend.\nHaynie was an associate in the syndications and capital markets division of the bank.\nShe "considered Chicago her adopted community and loved the career and social opportunities it presented," Winnecke said.\nAmy Chumley, 25, a French teacher at Evansville's McGary Middle School and a former University of Evansville cheerleader, was treated at a Chicago hospital for cuts, bruises, and arm and shoulder injuries. She flew to Evansville on Sunday to be with Haynie's family.\nJoe Prince, Haynie's boyfriend, was injured, but not seriously, Kenneth Haynie said.\nAmy Chumley had been visiting Margaret Haynie while in Chicago for a teacher's conference, her mother said.