$250,000 Lucky Day Lotto Ticket Sold In Peoria

Photo Courtesy: Circle K in Peoria, Illinois

CHICAGO, March 14, 2022 – If you purchased a ticket for the Lucky Day Lotto in Peoria for the evening drawing on Sunday, March 13, you may want to check your numbers right away - that’s because you may be holding a ticket worth $250,000.

The winning ticket was sold at Circle K, located at 5422 W. Farmington Rd. in Peoria, and matched all five winning numbers - 7, 8, 28, 37, 40 - in Sunday’s evening drawing to scoop the top prize.

Kendra Goodman, a cashier at Circle K, was excited to learn that one of their regular players has come into this windfall.

“I had no idea that someone bought a winning ticket from our store, I’m shocked, “ exclaimed Kendra Goodman, a cashier at Circle K. “We have a few people who play the Lucky Day Lotto regularly - so I have no clue who the winner could be,” added Goodman.

A win for a player is also a win for the local retailer, who will receive a bonus of $2,500, which is one percent of the winning prize value.

More than 15,500 other prizes, ranging from $1 to $200, were won in this Lucky Day Lotto drawing. In all, players won more than $533,767 in this drawing.

The Illinois Lottery urges the lucky winners to sign the back of their tickets, keep them in a safe place, and call 1-800-252-1775 for more information on how to claim their prize. Guidelines for mailing in prize claims are available at: Illinois Lottery.com/winning.  Winners have one year from the date of the winning draw in which to claim their prize.

Lucky Day Lotto is played twice a day, seven days a week. For more information or to buy tickets online, please visit illinoislottery.com.

About the Illinois Lottery:

Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $22 billion (since 1985) to the state’s Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes like homelessness prevention, Illinois Veterans services, the fight against breast cancer, MS research, Special Olympics, police memorials and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS.