CHICAGO (WLS) -- This weekend, hundreds of people will head to Chicago's Lakefront to take part in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation One Walk.
It's a fundraiser for JDRF, and the Chicago event is slated to take place at Montrose Harbor.
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Megyn Byrnes, who is the director of the walk, joined ABC7 Chicago Tuesday night to talk more about it.
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Earlier this year, a group of young men and women from Illinois attended the JDRF Children's Congress in Washington, D.C.
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JDRF is the leading global organization funding Type 1 diabetes research.
To learn more about JDRF and its efforts, visit JDRF.org.