Dr. Wilson, Shared his story on Windy City Live on August 1, 2018. 

Support Bill Senate Bill 552 and House Bill 3717 to remove bails on select nonviolent misdemeanor offenses by contacting your local state reps and senators.

Call him "Wilson the liberator."

Erstwhile mayoral candidate Willie Wilson — who also took a quixotic run at the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year — says he's going to Cook County Jail on Thursday with $15,000 in his pocket to bail out as many misdemeanor inmates as he can.

Long ago, Willie L. Wilson ran off from a Florida work camp, convinced it was virtual slavery. Hounds chased him but he got away.

Later, though he had no money, and only an eighth-grade education, he convinced himself he could run his own business. No matter that his career began as a floor-mopper in a fast-food restaurant. Like his belief in God, there are some things he just knows to be true.