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Freedom Swimming 350 (Swimming With Intentions to Make a Difference)
August 1-August 15, 1995 Five long-time friends from Bourbonnais, IL, Joshua T. Schlesinger, Cary Johnson, Toby Moore, James Haigh and Shawn McKay swam from Mackinac Island, MI to Oak Street Beach in Chicago to help raise money for the Jon Santo Freedom Jet Foundation, which provides needle free injection systems for under privileged children with Diabetes.
The swimmers traveled a distance of 356 miles from start to finish. This feat, swimming the length of the largest body of fresh water in the United States, had never been done before.
Local newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and the Sun Times were on hand, as well as Chicago television affiliates from FOX, WGN, ABC, NBC and CBS and radio stations WGN, WMAQ and WMVP.
Since this journey had never been accomplished before, they were commended for their achievement by Vice President Al Gore, Gov. Jim Edgar, U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.
They also received phone calls from Olympic gold medal winners Greg Louganis and Tom Jager, who was so impressed by their achievement that he took time out of his Olympic training to fly in and meet the team.
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/swimmers-for-charity-on-the-way-to-chicago/article_dbe1ff91-c759-5658-b777-c217b552442e.html
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No
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100 m
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