$600k jackpot lottery ticket sold at suburban gas station

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. — A lucky Illinois Lottery player is rolling into the weekend with a little extra spending money in their pocket after picking up a jackpot ticket at a north suburban gas station this week.

According to officials from the Illinois Lottery, the big winner hit the jackpot prize after matching all five numbers in Thursday’s midday Lucky Day Lotto drawing, claiming a $600,000 prize.

The numbers drawn were 4, 30, 32, 33, and 43, lottery officials said.

The ticket was sold at a Circle K, located in the 1000 block of Milwaukee Avenue in Lincolnshire.

The lucky lotto player is not the only person celebrating the big win, as a bonus for selling the ticket, the store will receive a $6,000 prize, which is equal to one percent of the jackpot.

After taxes, Thursday’s big winner will end up taking home about $426,300, which equals out to about $144,000 in federal taxes and about $29,700 in state taxes, according to TaxAct’s Lottery Tax Calculator.

Lucky Day Lotto, which is exclusively sold in Illinois, draws twice a day, at 12:40 p.m. and 9:22 p.m., and tickets can be purchased in-store, online, or on the Illinois Lottery app.

Lucky Day Lotto costs $1 per game and players have a 1 in 12 chance of winning a prize, but jackpot odds are much higher at 1 in 1,221,759. For $1 extra, players can also add EZmatch numbers to their ticket for a chance to claim an extra prize.

The winner of the jackpot ticket, whose name has not been disclosed, purchased just one of over two million tickets sold so far this year, which have netted players over $14M in prizes.

Illinois Lottery winners have one year from the date of winning to claim their prizes and lottery officials advise players to write their names on the backs of winning tickets and keep them in a safe place until they are ready to claim their prizes.