Hundreds of people went against a nearly century-long tide to swim in the Chicago River on Sept. 22. The event, which was put on for ALS research, marked the first open water swim in the river in 98 ...
More than 250 swimmers jumped into the Chicago River on Sunday morning, marking the first open-river swim in the once-polluted urban waterway in nearly a century. After a false start last year, the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Chicago River made news recently for something it hadn’t done in nearly 100 years – host an open water swim. Nearly 300 people braved the cold water to take part in a race in a ...