Where is your favorite place to swim in Chicago? Here's what you told us

We asked readers their favorite place to swim in Chicago. Here's what you told us, lightly edited for clarity: "Olive Park beach. The park district buoys it off for triathletes to practice swimming. It’s a half mile to Oak Street; [a round-trip] gives you a mile swim. If you need a break, it’s another 4.5 feet high near the wall and there are ladders at the markers." — Christine Spencer "On the other side of Lake Michigan, because there are no lifeguards to tell you that you can't go out far…