Lucky Day Lotto Ticket Worth $400,000 Sold In Loves Park
Photo Caption: Mathew Chacko, a manager at Loves Park Clark Gas in Loves Park, sold a $400,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket for the Thursday, March 24 evening draw.
CHICAGO, March 28, 2022 – A gas and convenience store in northwest Illinois is feeling the love after selling a $400,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket!
Loves Park Clark Gas, located at 5710 N. 2nd St. in Loves Park, sold the winning ticket for the Thursday, March 24 evening drawing. The ticket matched all five numbers, 7-16-18-34-44, to win the jackpot.
It was a nice surprise for the store manager, Mathew Chacko, when he found out they’d recently sold a big winning ticket.
“A regular customer told me that our store sold the winning ticket,” exclaimed Chacko. “Although I don’t know the winner personally, I am ecstatic for them.”
The Loves Park Clark Gas store is no stranger to selling winning Lottery tickets.
“We have a lot of regular customers who come into the store to play the Lottery. There’s been times when people have won $10,000, $25,000 and even $300,000,” added Chacko.
For selling the winning ticket, the retailer will receive a bonus of $4,000, which is one percent of the prize amount.
More than 14,200 other prizes, ranging from $1 to $200, were won in this Lucky Day Lotto drawing.
The Illinois Lottery encourages all lucky winners to write their name on the back of their ticket and keep it in a safe place until they’re ready to claim their prize.
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.