The Man Who Took on Lake Michigan | WGN News

In 1961 Chicagoan Ted Erikson is a 33-year-old chemist who swims as a hobby. What possessed him to attempt to become one of the first to swim across Lake Michigan? Larry Potash digs into this little-known story through the eyes of Ted’s widow.

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