$800,000 Lucky Day Lotto Jackpot Won!

SESSER, IL — July 9, 2018 — If you bought a Lucky Day Lotto ticket in Sesser, you may want to check it right away! A convenience store in Sesser sold a $800,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket in the Friday, July 6, evening drawing.

The winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased at Sesser Sun Mart, 203 W. Franklin Ave., and matched all five numbers – 12 - 32 - 39 - 41 - 43 – to win the jackpot. The retailer will receive a bonus of $8,000, or one percent of the prize of amount, for selling the winning ticket.

The Illinois Lottery urges the lucky winner to sign the back of the ticket and keep it in a safe place until they visit one of the Lottery’s five Prize Centers in Chicago, Des Plaines, Rockford, Springfield or Fairview Heights. Winners have one year from the original drawing date to claim their prize.

More than 22,000 players won prizes ranging from $1 to $200 in this Lucky Day Lotto drawing. Lucky Day Lotto drawings are twice a day, seven days a week. For more information or to subscribe online, please visit www.illinoislottery.com.

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Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $20 billion (since 1985) to the state’s Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes like Illinois Veterans services, the fight against breast cancer, MS research, Special Olympics and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to playing in-store, the Illinois Lottery offers online and mobile play for all draw-based Illinois Lottery games at illinoislottery.com. Players must be at least 18 years old