Lucky Palos Heights Resident Wins $75,000 Illinois Lottery Prize

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL — Palos Heights resident Beverly Dudnick was in Monee when she happened to scratch off a Crossword ticket and instantly won a top prize of $75,000. Dudnick buys an instant lottery ticket two or three times a month. She was at Hawks Tobacco and Liquor, 5752 Monee Manhattan Road, in Monee, when she bought and scratched her $75,000 winning ticket.

“This is great! I’m going to buy a new car and invest the rest,” she said when she presented her ticket at the Illinois Lottery Prize Center in Des Plaines.

Hawks, the retailer, also received a $750 bonus, equal to one percent of the prize amount, for selling the winning ticket. Crossword is a $5 instant ticket offering 42 top prizes of $75,000, nine of which have not been claimed. For more information, please visit Illinois Lottery.