$1M Lottery Ticket In Elmhurst Claimed

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$1M Lottery Ticket In Elmhurst Claimed A woman said she put the ticket in her purse and "forgot all about it."

ELMHURST, IL – A woman picked up everything on her list at an Elmhurst grocery store last month, according to an Illinois Lottery news release.

And she got one thing not on her list – a $1 million winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket, the lottery said Tuesday.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, bought the ticket on the evening of Oct. 20 at Jewel, 153 E. Schiller St., according to the release.

"While on my way to visit my aunt, I made a quick stop at Jewel to pick up a few groceries, and before heading out the door, I grabbed a quick pick Lucky Day Lotto ticket," the woman said in the news release. "I actually put the ticket in my purse and forgot all about it."

She matched all five numbers in the Oct. 20 drawing. The winning numbers were 2-3-24-25-28.

She told the lottery, "A couple days after the drawing, I saw the ticket in my purse and opened my lottery app to scan my ticket and check if it was a winner. I immediately saw '$1,000,000' on the screen, and I was in total shock. I scanned the ticket one more time to double-check, and when it showed '$1,000,000' again, I instantly started crying. I thought, 'This is unbelievable.'"

She was the ninth Illinois Lottery player this year to win $1 million or more in the Lucky Day Lotto.