The City of Elgin, Discover, United Way, and non-profit organization KaBoom! are coming together to put up a new playgrounf at Wright Avenue Park in Elgin. Local children and their parents met at Huff Elementary School on Tuesday July 31, 2012 to brainstorm ideas about what equipment should be installed. | Katherine Peters~Sun-Times Media
Maya Hernandez, 2, attempts to explain her complicated ideas regarding what the new playground being built at Wright Avenue Park in Elgin should include to KaBOOM! Project Manager Danielle Trezek on Tuesday July 31, 2012. | Katherine Peters~Sun-Times Media
Local children were able to give their own input in as to what the new playground being built at Wright Avenue Park should look like at a meeting at Huff Elementary School on Tuesday July 31, 2012. | Katherine Peters~Sun-Times Media
ELGIN — Discover Financial Services, United Way of Elgin, the city of Elgin and representatives from park-building-and-play advocacy group KaBOOM! will renovate Wright Avenue Park on the city’s east side Sept. 28, taking about six hours and the labor of 500 volunteers to remake the …