Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, September 15, 2016.
Viral ‘paleta man’s” fund-raiser becomes the biggest GoFundMe campaign ever in Illinois
More than $335,000 has been raised for the 89-year-old “paleta man” in a viral GoFundMe campaign. Fidencio Sanchez sells paletas (frozen treats similar to popsicles) from a cart on the west side. He was spotted by Joel Cervantes Macias, who decided to set up a fund-raising page for Sanchez. Since the campaign’s start on September 9, at least 12,573 people from 52 different countries have donated, making it the largest campaign ever in Illinois on the crowd-funding site, a GoFundMe spokesman told DNAinfo Chicago. [DNAinfo Chicago]
