Steam rising off Lake Michigan and the Chicago River Friday morning made for a stunning sight as the city saw its coldest temperatures in years. With air temperatures below zero and wind chills ...

Hundreds of swimmers made history on Sunday, plunging into the Chicago River for the first organized swim in nearly a century. About 300 participants completed a milelong, looping course in what was ...

Underwater in the Chicago River’s main branch downtown — a space not many humans, even locals, are familiar with firsthand — Tim Rooney, 57, felt the rumble of the “L” in his bones. On Sunday morning, ...

The State Street Bridge over the Chicago River will stay closed, until at least the end of next month.

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The Chicago River was once a heavily polluted mess, a source of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. The waterway was so dirty that engineers famously reversed its direction in 1900 so it ...

Hundreds of swimmers in Chicago joined the first open-water event on the Chicago River in a century, celebrating the city's progress in restoring a waterway once considered a toxic wasteland. Cities ...

Chicago’s famous green river for St. Patrick’s Day started with a simple idea in the 1960s, formulated by the head of the Plumbers’ Union Local 130. “Stephen M. Bailey had the idea when one of his ...