Olivia Smoliga has competed at the very highest levels of swimming in the most pressure-packed environments the sporting world has to offer. But even the two-time Olympian, who has a gold and a bronze ...

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.

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 ...