Jimmy Fallon Joins Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel for Lake Michigan Plunge
by Warner Todd Huston 3 Mar 2014,
7:08 AM PDT
This year Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
and NBC Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon joined the daredevils
taking the "Polar Bear" plunge in freezing Lake Michigan, Fallon
making good on his promise to do so after a challenge Tweet sent by the Mayor.
The polar vortex has handed Chicago one of its coldest, snowiest Winters in modern
memory, but that didn't stop the famed "Polar Bear" challenge as
Chicagoans braved the freezing cold waters of Lake
Michigan to start March with a plunge.
The event often brings celebrities
to the lake, but this year Emanuel, also promised to take the plunge himself if
Chicago's
school kids would read 2 million books during the city's Summer Learning
Challenge. 71,000 Chicago
youngsters obliged and even went 100,000 over the mark for good measure.
But Mayor Emanuel didn't want to
be the only one taking the chilly dip and began Tweeting NBC personality Fallon
to come to Chicago and take the Wintry jump in Lake Michigan, too. Emanuel promised that he'd go on
Fallon's Tonight Show if the late night host came to Chicago.
After several rounds of Tweets
between the host and the mayor, Fallon agreed to do it, though he later claimed
he wasn't fully aware of what it all entailed.
True to his Tweeted promises,
Fallon came to Chicago on March 2 and in his
full suit and tie ran headlong into the 32-degree water with Chicago's mayor and other assorted
celebrities.
"If you hear a scream like a
little girl's, just know that Jimmy Fallon is swimming in Lake
Michigan," Fallon told the crowd just before taking the
plunge.
Chicago's Shannon Rovers bagpipers played the soundtrack for the
mayor, and Fallon's swim and one of the troupe joked of Fallon that he could
"almost see his eyeballs popping out."
The Polar Bear challenge is held
every year to benefit the Special Olympics and Chicago Special Olympics
President Jen Kramer said that this year more than 3,000 folks came out topping
2013's 2,300. She credits Fallon and Emanuel's bet as the reason so many more
came out.
"When Mayor Emanuel announced,
we saw a little increase," Kramer said of donations. "And when Fallon
committed, that's when we saw the big increase."
Kramer said that more than a
million dollars will be raised with the challenge this year.
Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy
Fallon is the host of The Tonight
Show, a friend of Justin Timberlake,
was the host of Late Night, and a cast
member on Saturday Night Live.
Note: Conan O'Brien was
the host of The Tonight Show, the
host of Late Night, a writer for Saturday Night Live, and is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client.
Jonathan Glaser
is a writer for Late Night, and a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client.
Jeff
Ross is the producer for Late Night,
and a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Darrell Hammond
was a cast member for Saturday Night
Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Martin
Short was a cast member for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Adam
Sandler was a cast member for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Amy
Poehler was a cast member for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Tina
Fey was a cast member & writer for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Bob
Newhart was a host for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Adam
McKay was a writer for Saturday
Night Live, and is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Justin Timberlake
is a friend of Jimmy Fallon, and a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client.
Ari
Emanuel is the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is Ari Emanuel’s
brother, a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
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Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and an advocate for the ONE
Campaign.
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G. Buffett is a director at the ONE
Campaign, and a director at the Commission
on Presidential Debates.
Newton
N. Minow is a director at the Commission
on Presidential Debates, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and was a director
at CBS.
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News is a subsidiary of CBS.
Bill
O'Reilly was a reporter for the CBS
News, his agent was George Hiltzik,
and is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
George Hiltzik was
Bill O'Reilly’s agent, and the VP
for NBC.
The Tonight Show
is an NBC program.
Late
Night is an NBC program.
Saturday Night
Live is an NBC program.
Jimmy
Fallon is the host of The Tonight
Show, a friend of Justin Timberlake,
was the host of Late Night, and a cast
member on Saturday Night Live.
Justin Timberlake
is a friend of Jimmy Fallon, and a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client.
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