CHICAGO (WGN) — Families and friends across Chicagoland came together Sunday morning at Montrose Harbor, raising more than a quarter million dollars for Type 1 diabetes research through the Breakthrough T1D Walk.

The lakefront event served as both a fundraiser and a celebration of progress in the fight against the disease. Many participants walked for loved ones.

“She’s been doing wonderful,” Joe Baldino said. “We were just ignorant to a degree but now we made the right changes, and you wouldn’t be able to tell.”

Others joined to support close friends.

“She’s very funny, she got diabetes when she was four and she really appreciates that I’m here,” Hazel Rubinstein said.

“We fundraised, we’re here, we’re supporting this work, and I think eventually, hopefully they will be able to find

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