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Discover employees build new playgrounds

About 700 volunteers from Riverwoods-based Discover Financial Services helped build two new playgrounds Thursday in Lake County.

The playgrounds at Limbrunner Park in Park City and Hermon Park in Zion are the 24th and 25th built by Discover and KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit dedicated to bringing balanced and active play into the lives of all children, particularly those in low-income communities.

The designs for each park are based on children's drawings created at special events this summer.

Since 1996, KaBOOM! and its partners have built, improved and opened nearly 16,300 playgrounds, engaged more than 1 million volunteers and served 8.1 million kids, according to a news release.

Workers teamed up Thursday to build new playground equipment, paint benches and landscape the two parks.

Volunteers from other groups in those communities, such as the Kiwanis Club of Zion-Benton, helped in the project.

To learn more, visit https://kaboom.org.

  Volunteers from Discover Financial Services erect a new swing set Thursday at Limbrunner Park in Park City. Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
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