Kean Gas Station Supports Special Olympics Chicago Marathon Team This Week

CHICAGO, IL -- A neighborhood gas station will donate a portion of its proceeds this week to the Special Olympics Chicago Marathon team, of which 19th Ward Ald. Matt O'Shea is a member. O'Shea and Special Olympic Gold Medal winner Tommy Shimoda will pump gas on Friday for those who take part in the effort by the Kean Gas Station on 111th Street.

Kean will donate five cents per gallon of gas purchased from Monday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Sept. 24, O'Shea wrote in an email to ward residents this week.

O'Shea is part of a group of people who will run the 2017 Bank of America Chicago Marathon by supporting Special Olympics Chicago. The race will be O'Shea's fourth marathon run and the second in which he raises funds for the charity, according to a DNAinfo Chicago report.

Shimoda, a native of Mt. Greenwood, won gold and bronze medals as a speed skater in the 2017 Olympic Games in Austria and was later awarded an honorary ESPY award. He will soon become the first Special Olympian to be inducted into the Chicago sports hall of fame.

The two celebrity gas pumpers will be at Kean, 2632 W. 111th St. from 3-6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22.

"Thanks also to the incredibly generous Kean Family for their support of this and so many other worthy causes in the community," O'Shea wrote.

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