In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

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.

"Had they had those [swimming] skills, maybe we would be looking at a different situation,” said Kayden and Joyclyn Grant's stepmom Gofundme.com Siblings Kayden and Joyclyn Grant drowned on July 31 in ...