A lucky Rockford guy wins $900,000 recently in a lotto lottery game

An Illinois Lottery retailer celebrates after selling a jackpot-winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $900,000. The ticket was purchased for the June 22 evening drawing at Stop N Shop, 2501 N. Huffman Boulevard, Rockford.

“The winner came in Sunday morning, scanned the ticket, and gasped and his face turned bright red when he realized he was holding a jackpot-winning ticket,” says Raj Patel, store manager at Stop N Shop.

“He was ecstatic, of course, they couldn’t believe it! He’s a town local and a regular customer we see a few times a week.”

The Stop N Shop will receive a selling bonus of 1% of the prize amount, or $9,000, per Illinois lottery rules. The winning numbers on the ticket were 8-11-14-33-34.

Over 29,800 winning Lucky Day Lotto tickets were purchased for the June 22 evening drawing.