CHICAGO (AP) — Traffic jams resulted after wealthy Chicago businessman and mayoral candidate Willie Wilson donated $200,000 worth of gas at 10 service stations.
The giveaway in $50 increments started at 7 a.m. Thursday, leading to some fender-benders and, at one location, at least a half-dozen patrol cars directing traffic.
One station owner, Neha Baig, told the Chicago Sun-Times “it’s great for the community to come together and feel like they are being helped out in any way possible.”
Wilson asked if he regretted the traffic jams, told reporters he wished he had donated more gas. Prices at the pump were as high as $4.49 per gallon.
