Willie Wilson

Wilson will give away gift cards for groceries on Wednesday and gas on Saturday around the area.

Willie Wilson, who is running for mayor, has funded similar giveaways in recent months as inflation and gas prices have soared.

People can line up starting 7 a.m. Thursday. Participating stations are on the South, Far South, West and Far Northwest sides in the city.

Chicagoans braved the rain to get grocery coupons Wednesday. The savings are needed to help families hit hard by rising food prices, residents said.

$25 gift cards will be given out at 29 Pete's Fresh Market and Cermak Fresh Market stores starting 9 a.m. Wednesday. The mayoral candidate also is giving out discounted gas Thursday.

Wilson will give away $1 million in gas starting 7 a.m. Saturday. His organizers have asked people to not line up overnight.

Mayoral candidate Wilson said he'll also ask Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot to waive gas taxes for the giveaway.

Wilson, who has unsuccessfully run for mayor in the past, made national headlines in recent weeks for hosting gas giveaways in Chicago and the suburbs.

Among the new rules: No lining up overnight, no containers for gas and every driver needs a sticker for the giveaway.

Drivers will be able to head to these gas stations in Chicago and the suburbs to get $50 worth of gas starting 7 a.m. Thursday. The event will run until $1 million worth of gas has been given away.

This giveaway will take place at 50 stations in Chicago and suburban Cook County. A similar event this week led to huge traffic snarls throughout the city.

The giveaway caused widespread chaos, with traffic blocked up and people unable to get to work in some cases. But Wilson said he'll do it again March 31 — and provide more than $200,000 worth of gas.

The Chicago businessman and former mayoral candidate is giving drivers $50 of gas at select locations Thursday until he hits $200,000.

"I would suggest that Willie Wilson do his homework, that he look at what the science and data says that will do to people obviously I care deeply about and I assume he does, too," Gov. JB Pritzker said.

The masks will be available at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Apostolic Church of God and House of Hope.

The donation comes after Wilson sought to sell masks to the city and state, but Mayor Lightfoot and Gov. Pritzker balked at the deals.

Wilson asked the city's aldermen to distribute the masks to their area's most vulnerable populations.

The Catholic parish was inundated with requests for masks after handing out 5,000 last week, Father Michael Pfleger said.

"The Ingraham Angle" filmed at New Beginnings Church in what Ingraham called "one of the most dangerous neighborhoods on the South Side."