Slingshot Santa spreads holiday cheer in south suburbs

CHICAGO (WGN) —  You’d better watch out and certainly not cry, and forget about pouting, because Slingshot Santa is already in town.

This Santa uses his motorized three-wheeler, known as a Slingshot, as a sleigh. It’s how he and his happy helping elves spread the love around Christmas time, focusing on the south suburbs where they live, work, and worship.

Slingshot Santa is a gentleman named Craig Wilson who has made a career managing U-Haul locations. His lovely wife, Linda, is a retired educator. Together with their friends from Markham’s Faith Community of Temple Baptist Church, they are in their ninth year of handing out toys during the holiday season…

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