Chicago River

It literally only made it through the city's locks by a matter of inches.

Who says you need to be located on the ocean to have one of the best waterfront restaurants in America?

Every year Chicago hosts their annual "dye the river green" event in the heart of downtown Chicago. Find out when it's happening this year!

And, by "this" I mean dyeing the Chicago River bright green.

In a month full of strange and record-breaking weather events, you can add "smoking Chicago River" to the list of oddities we're experiencing.

Take an emmy-winning photographer and drone pilot and send him out into the cold. The result is some really cool video.

When I think of the Chicago River, my mind tends to lean toward images of the river being dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day, not for a refreshing dip. So, I was more than a little surprised to learn that a movement is afoot to make the Chicago River "swim-able."

It's been a St. Patrick's Day tradition in Chicago for years, the traditional dyeing of the Chicago River green.

One hundred years ago today, on July 24, 1915, the Eastland passenger ship listed to its side in the Chicago River between LaSalle Drive and Clark Street. More than 840 people died in the disaster. That's a higher number than the fatalities in the Titanic sinking...

Whether you're nursing a wee bit of a headache on this day after St. Patrick's Day, or you're making life difficult for someone who is, I think you'll find this time-lapse video of the Chicago River being dyed a festive green to be pretty cool...