$1M Winning Lottery Ticket Sold In Prospect Heights

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, IL — Did you recently buy a Lucky Day Lotto ticket in Prospect Heights? If so, especially if it was at CoachLite Liquors, make sure to check out your ticket. According to Illinois Lottery officials, a winning ticket worth $1 million was sold at 7 S. Wolf Road.

The ticket matched all five numbers for the Sunday, Oct. 30 midday drawing to win the jackpot. The winning numbers were: 18-23-29-44-45.

Officials said Sunday's winner was the seventh to cash in for $1 million on this particular lottery contest so far in 2022.

"A customer called our store this morning to inform us that we had sold a winning lottery ticket. At first, I thought the customer was talking about the massive Powerball jackpot," Mi Kim, owner of CoachLite Liquors, told Illinois Lottery. "Although it wasn’t the big one, we are very excited that our store played a role in making someone’s lottery dream come true with a million dollar win."

Kim, who has owned the store with her husband for more than 10 years, said she has no idea who purchased the winning ticket. For selling the winning ticket, the retailer will receive a bonus of $10,000, which is one percent of the prize amount, Illinois Lottery said.

Winners have one year from the date of the winning draw in which to claim their prize.