Dansby and Mallory Swanson fund new Clyde-Brummel Park playground
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Dansby Swanson speaks alongside his wife, Mallory Swanson, thanking volunteers at the Clyde-Brummel Park playground build Thursday. Credit: Macy Millones Volunteers completed work on a new, kid-designed playground at Clyde-Brummel Park Thursday afternoon, joining Chicago Stars forward and Olympic gold medalist Mallory Swanson and her husband, two-time Gold Glove winner and Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson, who helped fund the project in partnership with national nonprofit KaBOOM! The Swansons’ foundation, the Purpose Calling Foundation, provided a $200,000 grant to KaBOOM! for renovation of the park at 600 Brummel St. The City of Evanston matched the grant through its Capital Improvement Program. The project matches what our foundation is all about: providing opportunities, resources for kids to be able to be kids and then also be able to achieve their dreams in life, said Mallory Swanson, also a player for the U.S. women s national team. KaBOOM! vice president of