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Chicago Hero Rewarded With a Car

After Anthony Perry, 20, saved someone who fell unconscious onto Chicago train tracks, a local businessman decided to surprise him with a car, Chicago news station WLS reported. 

Perry recalled the life-changing, harrowing incident that resulted in such a positive turn of events. 

Perry was waiting for a train on the platform of the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line on June 5 when a fight broke out between two men, the New York Post reported. Both men fell onto the tracks, where they continued to fight until one of the men was jolted unconscious by the electrified rail. 

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