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.

A 13-year-old girl from western Pennsylvania drowned on Monday while swimming in the Ohio River in West Virginia. The teenager, who was from Burgettstown, was swept away by the current while swimming ...

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 ...

How Austin High's 1921 basement pool let kids swim through subzero winters, hosted championship teams, and ended up buried ...

He was from Parsipanny, New Jersey, and drowned in water that was 17-feet-deep. A 30-year-old man has drowned in Pennsylvania near a family picnic area while attempting to swim across the river and ...