Three Lucky Places in Oak Lawn To Buy Your MegaMillions Lotto Ticket

Have you bought your MegaMillions lotto ticket yet? With today (Friday) being the last day to snap up your tickets, millions of people are playing the lotto with the hopes winning the record-busting (and growing) $540 million jackpot.

UPDATE: MegaMillions jackpot has reached $640 million!

You can buy tickets until 9:45 p.m. Friday, with the live drawing happening on WSB-TV in Atlanta, GA, at 10 p.m. Chicago-time.

If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, or want to buy a few more, here are three lucky businesses in Oak Lawn that have sold winning jackpot tickets in the past five months.  

• sold a Six years ago, the neighborhood store owned by the Niazi family, sold another $250K winning lotto ticket. Foodie’s received $2,500 for selling the winning ticket—one-percent of the jackpot amount.
• Lottery lightning struck again on Nov. 3, 2011, when sold a
• won $250,000 on lucky Dec. 13 playing the MegaMillions game with a ticket they purchased at

Other local lucky spots:

• A $1 million Powerball winner was purchased at the 7-Eleven store at 11958 South Cicero Avenue in Alsip on March. 1.
• Although none of the actual winning tickets were sold in Oak Lawn stores, in the 2010 Halloween Millionaire Raffle in the Illinois Lottery.

Should an Oak Lawn business selling Friday’s winning MegaMillions lotto ticket, the store will receive one-tenth of the jackpot—in this case, $540,000.