A Rubber Ducky Swims from the Chicago River to China but arrives a little bloated.

A Chicago Streets and Sanitation crew dumped over 30,000 rubber ducks from the Columbus Avenue bridge into the Chicago River in August of 2011. The proposed contest was to see if a rubber duck could reach another continent, its path, and how long it would take if one did make it.

Chicago River at the Columbus Avenue Bridge.

The winning duck, № 12,637, made it to a Hong Kong harbor in China in October 2013, taking 26 months. When he/she arrived, the excessively bloated duck had reached a height of 54 feet. To this day, how this duck became so ginormous has never been explained, nor has any prize ever been announced.

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Ducky's Route from Chicago to Open Waters:
 ♦ Down the South Branch of the Chicago River, into the;
 ♦ Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, into the;
 ♦ Des Plaines River, into the;
 ♦ Illinois River, into the ;
 ♦ Mississippi River,
 ♦ and down to the Gulf of Mexico.

Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong, China.

That's One Big Duck!

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