Chicagoans Avoided Their ‘Filthy’ River for Years. On Sunday, They Swam in It. | NYGazet

Decades of work to clean the Chicago River culminated with the first swim in almost 100 years. It was the latest sign of how the city’s relationship with its river has changed.

Early Sunday morning, spectators jostled for a glimpse of the Chicago River to witness something that hadn’t happened there in nearly a century. People were swimming in it. In the heart of the Loop downtown, surrounded by Modernist skyscrapers, hundr... [3850 chars]