Lady Gaga won’t be jumping in a bracing cold Lake Michigan this month for Chicago’s Polar Plunge. Al Roker gets a pass, too, as do Jimmy Fallon, Rahm Emanuel and the guy who invariably shows up dressed as Mike Ditka. The Polar Plunge, which raises money for Chicago’s Special Olympics and draws thousands of brave souls to North Avenue Beach — including, always, a handful of celebrities and .
For 2021, the decade long event is going virtual.
From Mar. 1-7 people can take the plunge any way they choose, from jumping in the snow to running through a sprinkler.
The event raises money for Special Olympics Chicago/Special Children s Charities.
First Midwest Bank members raised $30,000 while partcipating in the polar plunge through a snowball fight.
More than 50 team members from First Midwest Bank decided to have a snowball fight Sunday and raised $30,000.
On Sunday Mar. 7 at 5 p.m., there will be a Virtual Meltdown Party where videos of plunges will be played and prizes will be handed out.
There are many prizes for those who register, in addition to the annual costume contest and an award for most creative plunge.
‘The longest-serving athlete’: Pioneering Special Olympian dies By Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune
Published: December 28, 2020, 6:05am
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4 Photos About 300 young athletes showed off their skills in such sports as swimming, gymnastics and volleyball during the opening of the first 1974 Northern Area Special Olympics on April 19, 1974. (James O Leary / Chicago Tribune/TNS) Photo Gallery
CHICAGO – When Michael “Moose” Cusack was born in the Chicago Lying-in Hospital in 1956, doctors told his parents that something was wrong he had Down syndrome. They advised: don’t bring him home. It was better to institutionalize him early, his parents were told.
John and Esther Cusack’s first step toward challenging the status quo was bringing their son home. They raised him, loved him and nurtured him the same as his four sisters.
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