Hosted at Chicago’s North Avenue Beach, thousands of people come together to raise money to support 7,500 athletes with disabilities by plunging into the lake.
This will be the fourth year Brown takes the plunge. For the first time, her 11-year-old son will join her.
“He is very excited,” she said. “The Special Olympics is an amazing cause.”
What makes this plunge more special is that Brown and her son won the contest to name the event’s polar bear mascot. They submitted the name “Shiver.”
“My son was afraid he wasn’t going to stop shivering if he did the plunge,” Brown said. “That’s where the idea came from.”