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Two Lucky Day Lotto Jackpot Winners Hit Big In Illinois

May 20th, 2026

CHICAGO, May 19, 2026 — If you purchased a Lucky Day Lotto® ticket for one of yesterday’s drawings, you might want to check your numbers — two jackpot-winning tickets were sold in Illinois, including one worth $500,000.

The $500,000 winning ticket was purchased at King Super Market, located at 400 E. 41st Street in Chicago.  The ticket matched all five numbers in the Monday, May 18 midday drawing to win the game’s top prize. The winning numbers were 22-32-33-40-44.

A second jackpot-winning ticket was sold at K & R Candy, 15 River Oaks Drive in Calumet City. That lucky ticket won $100,000 in the evening drawing with the numbers 3-8-35-36-37.

For selling the jackpot-winning tickets, both retailers will receive a bonus of 1% of the prize amount.

In total, more than 33,000 winning tickets were sold in yesterday’s Lucky Day Lotto drawings.

Winners have one year from the draw date to claim their prize. The Illinois Lottery encourages all winners to sign the back of their ticket and keep it in a secure location until they are ready to claim their winnings.

Lucky Day Lotto is an Illinois-only draw game with two daily drawings at 12:40 p.m. and 9:22 p.m., and jackpots starting at $100,000. Tickets are available in-store, online, and via the Illinois Lottery app.

Lucky Day Lotto b-roll, available for use by the media; download here.

Be Smart, Play Smart®. Must be 18 or older to play. Game odds available at IllinoisLottery.com.

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About the Illinois Lottery
The Illinois Lottery, founded in 1974, has contributed over $26 billion to the State’s Common School Fund in support of K-12 public education in Illinois since 1985. The Common School Fund is the Illinois Lottery’s primary beneficiary, receiving nearly 99% of Illinois Lottery proceeds. The Illinois Lottery also supports various specialty causes as described in the Illinois Lottery Law (20 ILCS 1605/21.4). For more information about the Illinois Lottery and the causes we support, please visit IllinoisLottery.com.