Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Underwater in the Chicago River’s main branch downtown — a space not many humans, even locals, are familiar with firsthand — Tim ...

Photos from the Chicago River Swim on Sept. 21, 2025, which raised $100,000 for research into ALS and celebrated the river’s recovery from its polluted past. Swimmers compete in 1st official Chicago ...

Andy Donaldson set a record pace on Tuesday after completing a 55km “dam to dam” swim along Western Australia’s Ord River in 11 hours and 51 minutes, becoming the fastest person to cover the route and ...

At last summer’s Chicago River Swim, the first in a century in that iconic waterway of stunning skyscrapers and ornamented drawbridges, swimmers were captivated by one of the joys of urban swimming: a ...

Early Sunday morning, spectators jostled for a glimpse of the Chicago River to witness something that hadn’t happened there in nearly a century. People were swimming in it. In the heart of the Loop ...