Aid goes from dealerships to front-line workers

Front-line workers in the Chicago area with their loaner vehicles from Fox Valley Auto Group. “Dealers have always stepped up, so we aren’t really doing anything new,” owner Emir Abinion said of the group’s effort to help during the pandemic.

April 26, 2020 10:36 PM

Fifteen minutes after Island Auto Group co-owner Marcello Sciarrino called a local police precinct to offer free loaner cars to first responders in need, his phone began lighting up with requests.

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