People plunge into freezing Lake Michigan during Chicago Polar Bear Club 24th annual Polar Plunge event at Oak Street Beach on Jan. 25, 2025. The event was sold out after selling 1,000 tickets.

A group of hearty souls gathered at Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest Saturday morning to plunge into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan for a cause.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Registration is now open for Polar Plunge Chicago, benefiting Special Olympics Illinois, presented by Special Children's Charities. The event returns to North Avenue Beach on ...

A system is expected to move in around the Chicago area Wednesday into Thursday prompting scattered snow showers. Temperatures rebound starting Wednesday afternoon with highs back in the lower 20s.

The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar ...

In the days before the polar plunge hit, track inspectors walked the ... Red Line track near 63rd Street sits in the stockyard at Chicago Transit Authority headquarters at 3900 W.

Whether you’re looking to check off a bucket list challenge, get outside during a long Chicago winter, or do some good for your community, the annual polar plunge is the perfect way to dare to care.

A polar vortex is set to plunge much of the continental United ... Great Lakes and Midwest Chicago and Illinois: Wind chills of -15°F to -25°F are expected, with highs in the single digits ...

Hearts for Honduras Vice President Ellie Logsdon, left, and President and founder Elle Warburton model their club's beanies that will be on sale at the first polar plunge fundraiser on Feb. 1 at ...

Cash prices for Saturday through Tuesday delivery surged, meanwhile, as markets braced for a polar vortex set to arrive ... at Northern Natural Ventura and Chicago Citygate give “an idea of ...