Hundreds took part in a historic swim in the Chicago River on Sunday, according to multiple reports. The Guardian reported the organized swim was the first of its kind in close to 100 years. The ...

The swim was in Chicago. The idea came from Amsterdam. And it was Barrington’s Doug McConnell who was key to propelling the Chicago River Swim into the water Sunday. More than 260 swimmers took the ...

This Sunday, swimmers can take the plunge into Boston’s once notoriously “dirty water” through the 1-day-only City Splash event on the Charles River. The “beloved summer event” is a tradition put on ...

Hundreds of swimmers will dive into the first open water swim in the Chicago River in almost a century this fall. The landmark event, set for Sept. 21, will celebrate the city's environmental progress ...

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 ...

For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.

BERLIN (AP) — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water. Around ...

For the first time in nearly a century, the Chicago River hosted an organized open swim. The race on Sunday drew 263 swimmers and celebrated the river’s environmental turnaround. Memories of the river ...

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 ...