{"id":395035,"date":"2025-11-21T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:50:16","slug":"chicago-man-wins-nearly-500k-ahead-of-holidays-after-buying-10-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395035\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man wins nearly $500K ahead of holidays after buying $10 ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A Chicago man scored a nearly $500,000 lottery jackpot just in time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The winner, identified only as Peter, a mechanic, won a $487,929 Fast Play jackpot on the Illinois Lottery\u2019s $10 Luxury Loot game, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Peter purchased the winning ticket online after being drawn to the game\u2019s theme.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I just love dogs! This game has an adorable little bulldog,&#8221; Peter said. &#8220;I noticed the jackpot was growing and I just knew I had to play.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He said he discovered the win while waiting for a friend after buying gifts and groceries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I was waiting for a friend after buying them a gift and a few groceries for the week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was stunned when I saw I had won.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;My friend was just a block away. I dropped the groceries right then and started running towards them screaming in excitement!&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Peter said he plans to use his winnings to help family and friends and share his good fortune through small acts of kindness.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I love investing in my community\u2014gestures like paying for someone\u2019s meal or expenses make my heart full,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">How to play:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoislottery.com\/games\/fpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fast Play<\/a> is a style of lottery game that can be played anytime, according to lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Illinois Lottery currently offers 35 Fast Play games. There are no numbers to pick, no play slips, no scratching and no waiting for results.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Tickets are available online, in stores and through the Illinois Lottery app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was provided by the Illinois Lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago man scored a nearly $500,000 lottery jackpot just in time for the holiday season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,6411,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-395035","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-news","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115588722497207853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395035","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=395035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}