A suburban resident is the winner of a cool $1 million after purchasing a ticket at a gas station in recent days.<\/p>\n
The winning ticket was sold at a Citgo station in the community of Justice, a suburb located southwest of Chicago.<\/p>\n
The ticket was sold in the Lotto Million 1 game, matching the six winning numbers of 5-11-16-23-25-39 in the July 10 drawing, according to the Lottery.<\/p>\n
According to William Beahan, who owns the gas station, the winner has not yet come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was out of the country when I got the call from my manager. We have no clue who the winner might be, but I have a strong feeling it was a regular Lotto player from our area,\u201d he said. \u201cWhoever it is, we\u2019re very happy for the winner and look forward to celebrating with them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Illinois Lottery officials say the store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket, which Beahan said he will invest in his business, give as a bonus to employees, and launch a gas promotion for customers.<\/p>\n
Lotto is an Illinois-only game played on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, according to the Lottery. There have been four instances this year where a player has won $1 million or more in the game, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Winners have one year from the date of the drawing to claim their prizes, according to the Illinois Lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suburban resident is the winner of a cool $1 million after purchasing a ticket at a gas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,43551],"class_list":{"0":"post-60075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-illinois-lottery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114841367912428323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60075","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=60075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}