‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In
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It was the first open-river swim there in nearly a century, the result of decades of work addressing pollution. By Leigh Giangreco More than 250 swimmers jumped into the Chicago River on Sunday morning, marking the first open-river swim in the once-polluted urban waterway in nearly a century.