The ticket, a $30, 3,000,000 Cash Fortune Instant Ticket, was sold at a gas station in Mount Prospect, located approximately 22 miles outside of Chicago.
Someone in Illinois is $3 million dollars richer, thanks to a lucky scratch-off ticket sold at a suburban Chicago gas station.
According to the Illinois Lottery, the ticket -- a $30, 3,000,000 Cash Fortune scratch-off Instant Ticket -- was sold at a BP Gas station in Mount Prospect, located at 1625 East Euclid Drive. The retailer is lucky, too, lottery officials said. For selling the winning ticket, the gas station will receive a bonus of one person of the prize amount.Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly“This is such happy news,” store manager Benny Lukose said in a press release. “While we sell a lot of lottery tickets, I can definitely recognize our regular customers - so I bet I’ll know the winner.
"As the process involves physically removing hundreds of thousands to millions of tickets from our stores for a particular game, that process can take up to 1 to 3 months to complete," the spokesperson said."We will continue to look for ways to make this process even better for our players and retailers.”
According to lottery officials, there are more than 50 different Illinois Lottery Instant Ticket games at over 7,000 retail locations across Illinois.
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