{"id":280306,"date":"2025-09-21T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/moment-hundreds-of-people-plunge-in-chicago-river-for-first-official-swim-in-100-years\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:05:34","slug":"moment-hundreds-of-people-plunge-in-chicago-river-for-first-official-swim-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/moment-hundreds-of-people-plunge-in-chicago-river-for-first-official-swim-in-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment hundreds of people plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/9n46Y9gSEjw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Moment hundreds of people plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in 100 years\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9n46Y9gSEjw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River\u2019s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organised swim in the river for nearly 100 years, a previously unthinkable act in what was once one of the most befouled waterways in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River\u2019s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organised swim in the river for nearly 100 years, a previously unthinkable act in what was once one of the most befouled waterways in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":280307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[129280,128896,138535],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-280306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-hundreds","tag-people","tag-plunged"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Moment hundreds of people plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in 100 years | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Moment hundreds of people plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in 100 years for free, here on News ISC. 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