{"id":156717,"date":"2025-08-18T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156717\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:29:09","slug":"two-illinois-players-hit-huge-lottery-wins-including-a-record-1-55m-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156717\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Illinois players hit huge lottery wins \u2014 including a record $1.55M jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; From a record-breaking jackpot to a big Lucky Day Lotto win, two Illinois players had a weekend they won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">An online player won a $1,551,431 Illinois Super Jackpot, the largest prize in the game\u2019s history, according to Illinois Lottery officials. The $20 progressive Fast Play game begins with a jackpot of $50,000 and grows until someone wins.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The second jackpot hit during Sunday\u2019s Lucky Day Lotto midday drawing on Aug. 17. A player matched all five numbers \u2014 3, 8, 15, 16 and 39 \u2014 to win $550,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The winning ticket was purchased at MK Simplemart, 8145 S. Pulaski Ave. in Chicago, officials said. The store will receive a $5,500 bonus, equal to 1% of the prize amount, for selling the ticket.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">In all, more than 15,800 winning tickets were sold in Sunday\u2019s midday Lucky Day Lotto drawing statewide, officials said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">How to Get Tickets :<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Tickets for Illinois Super Jackpot and Lucky Day Lotto are available in stores, online or through the Illinois Lottery app.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">To learn more about the lottery games, follow this link.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/money\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Money<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; From a record-breaking jackpot to a big Lucky Day Lotto win, two Illinois players had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,6411,6459,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-lottery","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115051899417671406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}