Relax, Park Lawn Queen Of Hearts Jackpot Passes $1.7 Million

OAK LAWN, IL — Relax, the Park Lawn Queen of Hearts raffle rolled over Wednesday, just shy of $1.7 million after a joker cleaned off the board in last week’s drawing. Her Majesty failed to show, perhaps scared away by the Village of Crestwood elected officials who requested a bond for the raffle to continue if beyond a $2 million jackpot. The jackpot going into the Oct. 16 pull stands at $1,675,719 and growing.

There hasn’t been a winner in Park Lawn’s Queen of Hearts raffle since October 2022. The seventh edition of the game has now been wiped clean by five jokers. If the jackpot reaches $2 million before the queen is found, Park Lawn announced a drawdown will be held. Should the queen come out before then, the game will end immediately. Until then, it’s business as usual.

Park Lawn’s Queen of Hearts has the biggest jackpot on the South Side, and the second biggest in the Chicago region, trailing McHenry VFW Post 4600’s progressive raffle, which rolled over to $1,681,320 in the veterans’ Tuesday draw.

It was a big night for R.A., who played the #21 spot, revealing the ace of hearts. R.A. still went home a winner with 24 free tickets for the Oct. 16 live drawing at the always fun At The Office Sports Bar & Grill in Crestwood.

Due to the extremely high volume of players, online ticket sales will now CLOSE at NOON MONDAY for the weekly drawing. Sales of online tickets have already resumed for the next week's drawing. In-person ticket sales will continue at Park Lawn’s Oak Lawn location at 10833 Laporte Ave. and from the handy-dandy red ticket machine at the always fun At The Office Sports Bar & Grill , 4901 Cal-Sag Road, Crestwood.

All tickets must now be in the black box by 6:50 p.m. so they can be poured into the Bozo drum. And for all you conspiracy theorists out there, the Bozo Drum is spun and mixed “9 million times,” which also includes a ceremonial shovel, dryer sheets and Swiffer dusters to keep the tickets nice and loose inside the drum.

The current progressive raffle continues to set new records for Park Lawn, with the only million dollar-plus QOH jackpot in the south suburbs.

Players can now play multiple numbers in a single online purchase. That number, along with the buyer's name and phone number, will be written down by a Park Lawn representative on all the tickets purchased in that transaction and placed into that week's drawing. Read the terms and conditions. Players must be 18 or over.

Park Lawn Queen of Hearts board for Oct. 16, 2024

Should the Queen of Hearts appear, the winner splits the pot 60-40 with Park Lawn if present; or 50-50 if not present. The person whose ticket is drawn but doesn’t find the queen gets 24 free tickets for the next week’s drawing. Should the ace of spades appear, the winner (must be present to win) will receive free appetizers every week for a year at At the Office. Joker resets the board.
You can watch the drawing live every Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Park Lawn Charity Facebook.

All proceeds benefit Park Lawn’s programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including supported employment, residential, social and home-based services.

“It doesn’t matter if you buy first, middle or last,” said Mark Dynia, chief marketing officer for Park Lawn. “You have a very good chance of having your ticket pulled.”