Oak Lawn's Lucky Day Lotto $750,000 Winner Revealed

Thomas Naples, of Oak Lawn, holding his winning Quick Pick ticket.

Lucky Oak Lawn resident Thomas Naples was the winner of the $750,000 jackpot in the Lucky Day Lotto mid-day drawing on March 3.

Naples, 82, was at the grocery store with his daughter when he bought his Lucky Day Lotto ticket at Jewel-Osco, 8801 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Lawn.

After he got home he checked the winning numbers on the Illinois Lottery website. When he saw that the numbers on his ticket matched, he froze.

“I asked my son-in-law to double check the ticket and when he confirmed that I won, we were both speechless,” Naples told the Illinois Lottery people. “Meanwhile, when my daughter heard the news she started screaming! We thought she was going to have a heart attack.”

The lucky Oak Lawn resident’s Quick Pick ticket matched all five numbers -- 06 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 33. Naples says he knows exactly what he will do with the $750,000 he won playing Lucky Day Lotto.

“This prize is for my four children and eight grandchildren. It’s all for them,” Naples said.

Jewel will also receive a $7,500 bonus, 1 percent of the prize amount, for selling the winning ticket.

Two winning tickets shared the March 3 $1.5 million jackpot prize. The other $750,000 winning ticket, also a Quick Pick, was purchased at Ardmore Station Liquors, 332 South Ardmore Avenue in Villa Park.