Violent and brutal. Disgusting. These are some of the things the internet and social media have to say about whether it's OK ...

The 61-year-old resident of the Grand Haven, Mich., area intends to swim solo across Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee's McKinley ...

If you still want to head to the beach during this long weekend, it's going to be dangerous to swim in Lake Michigan today but safe to do so on Labor Day. The National Weather Service issued a ...

Instead of a swimming in the Chicago River, participants in the inaugural "Chicago River Swim" swam in Lake Michigan, raising $150,000 for ALS research and $50,000 to fund water safety lessons for ...

From the concrete trail and the beach, spectators gathered to witness an open-water distance swim on Lake Michigan. Originally proposed as the first Chicago River Swim in more than a century ...

On a rainy Sunday morning in Lake Michigan, hundreds of eager and already wet swimmers hit the water for an amazing cause. Sunday marked the first plunge of the relocated Chicago River Swim.

The $8 million federally funded project is a part of the larger effort to clean up the most polluted and degraded sites in ...

On Sunday, roughly 500 participants jumped in Lake Michigan for the Chicago River Swim, 116 years after a similar event prompted the Tribune headline: “Germs Of Chicago River Mere Bagatelle To ...

But Dreyer ended up swimming north instead, burning precious time and adding more miles as risky weather approached. A support crew pulled him out of Lake Michigan on Aug. 8. “What a blow!” ...

It’s 5:30 a.m. on Thursday at Promontory Point. Two swimmers chart their course from the rocks, strapping swim caps around ...