Cook County Board Honors South Suburban Business Owner For His Philanthropic Work

Early Walker (second from left), owner and CEO of W&W Towing, was recently honored by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Photo Credit: Provided by Early Walker
Early Walker (second from left), owner and CEO of W&W Towing, was recently honored by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Photo Credit: Provided by Early Walker

Cook County Board Honors South Suburban Business Owner For His Philanthropic Work

BY KATHERINE NEWMAN

During a recent Board meeting, the Cook County Board of Commissioners along with the Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, presented a proclamation to Early Walker, a south suburban resident and business owner, that honored the numerous charitable contributions he has made in Cook County.

34-year-old Walker is the owner and CEO of W&W Towing, a business he built from the ground up with no former experience in towing and only one used tow truck. W&W Towing was established in 2013 and since then has become a very successful business. Walker wholeheartedly attributes his own success to his passion for giving.

“I was definitely shocked and I’m definitely humbled. I was elated by the honor and very excited, to say the least. I don’t do any of this for the accolades but a lot of what I do does gain attention and attraction just by me posting it on social media,” said Walker. “When I started this, it was just a thought and I had never towed a car and to see what has happened from 2013 to now and all that has come is just astonishing.”

A resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County was represented to Walker that recognized W&W Towing as a towing company known for it’s generosity to the less fortunate. The resolution also recognizes Walker for providing children who have lost their parents to gun violence with Christmas shopping sprees, for providing over 25,000 turkeys to struggling families on Thanksgiving, for sending over 30,000 bottles of water to Flint, Michigan when news broke of their water crisis, and for traveling to Houston after the city was devastated by a hurricane to hand deliver aid to the most devastated communities.

“My first or second year that I was in business, I will never forget this, I saw a young lady that was broken down in the middle of the street on Christmas Eve. I pulled over in my tow truck and she was sitting in her car with her three kids and she was crying and told me that she didn’t have money for a tow and told me to go ahead and leave. I told her not to worry about it and that I would tow her home for free,” said Walker.

During the trip to the woman’s home, she told Walker that she was on hard times and didn’t have money to buy her kids any gifts and that she wasn’t able to get them a Christmas tree. After dropping her and her children off at home Walker went out and bought the family a Christmas tree and bought each child a gift.

“I probably didn’t even have it for myself but I just felt so sorry for her and her family. I pretty much split what I was going to do for my daughter in half just so that this other family could have some type of a Christmas and that’s how it started,” said Walker.

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