For the first time in nearly 100 years a swimming event will be held in the Chicago River.

Back with a new season of Keys to My Life, Brendan Courtney has plenty of other irons in the fire. He talks to Claire O'Mahony about his TV and radio career, leaving the city and creating a new home.

A 23-year-old man fished out an alligator that was swimming along the boats at The Wharf Marina in Southwest D.C.

The inaugural Chicago River Swim is a symbol of how far we’ve come toward treating urban rivers, not as scars but as veins.

The Chicago River Swim is an open water swim event organized by Douglas McConnell, the co-founder of A Long River Swim, which organizes open water swimming events to raise awareness and funds in the ...

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Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend. Chicago River Swim Hundreds of swimmers will plunge into the Chicago ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Competitors take part in a 6.5 km swimming race ...

ISTANBUL — Coast guard and maritime police vessels in Istanbul were searching Monday for a Russian swimmer who went missing during a cross-Bosphorus race a day earlier, Turkish state-run media ...

First responders in Highland Park are searching for a missing swimmer who was last seen in the water near Openlands Lakeshore Preserve at Fort Sheridan, authorities said Saturday afternoon. At ...

A Herne Bay man has completed his second English Channel swim to mark his 60th birthday — and met some dolphins along the way. Kristin Hawthorne reports. Ukraine unveils devastating new ‘Flamingo’ ...