CHICAGO -- Swimmers braved the cold to swim among ice pancakes that had formed on top of the freezing Lake Michigan water in Chicago. The footage was posted on January 9 with the quote ...

While the air outside is warming up, the Great Lakes will remain cold for weeks to come. Here's when it'll be swim weather.

Over a fifth of the world’s supply of non-frozen freshwater flows through the ... she said that as far as she remembers, Lake Michigan has always varied. “It’s weird to be swimming here this late, but ...

The 35-year-old grew up surrounded by swimming ... into Lake Michigan to get acclimated to the water, sometimes bringing a hammer to hack through the ice with if the lake has frozen over.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — The Shark is back in the water, trying to repeat his 1998 feat of swimming across Lake Michigan. Jim Dreyer entered the lake at Grand Haven, Michigan, on Tuesday and began ...

Violent and brutal. Disgusting. These are some of the things the internet and social media have to say about whether it's OK to swim in Lake Michigan. But is that just typical social media hyperbole?

The 35-year-old grew up surrounded by swimming ... into Lake Michigan to get acclimated to the water, sometimes bringing a hammer to hack through the ice with if the lake has frozen over.