Chicago Couple's Act of Kindness on Blue Line Train Goes Global

What Jack Stankovic said he witnessed on a Chicago Blue Line train over the weekend was something he called “rare” and “unheard of.”

Stankovic posted to Facebook Sunday that he witnessed a couple putting money into a disabled homeless man’s bag while he slept on the train.

“No one else noticed but me,” he wrote. “This wasn’t spare change, and the homeless man wasn’t bother [sic] or asking anything from anyone.”

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The couple exited the train at the Irving Park station but not before Stankovic captured a photo, and posted it to social media, saying “these two people must be put on blast.”

The post has been shared more than 75,000 times since and been shared around the globe.

“Thank you sir for re-establishing my faith in humanity,” Stankovic wrote. “You sir are a true gentleman… Let’s all share and thank this guy and his girl.”

Courtney White and his wife, Tanya Prewitt-White, were identified as the couple in the photo. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, they said they were returning from a funeral in Alabama and were moved to give the man money. Prewitt-White said she and her husband were “just trying to pay it forward.”

The couple said once the photo went viral, they started receiving notifications from people around the world, even as far as Ukraine and London, praising them for the act.

Stankovic told the Tribune he “had no idea [the post] would get as big as it has,” but he said “people like them should be praised.”