Morton Grove store sells $1 million winning lottery ticket

Someone who purchased a Lucky Day Lotto ticket at a Morton Grove convenience store April 7 has a $1 million prize waiting for them, according to a press release from the Illinois Lottery.

The winner has not yet come forward, spokesperson Amy Shanks said, and when they do, they are likely to be anonymous.

The store, a Family Pantry on the 9200 block of Waukegan Road, will get a $10,000 bonus — 1% of the total jackpot — from the Illinois Lottery for selling a winning ticket.

The ticket was one of two winning tickets over the weekend, per the press release: another ticket purchased in Chicago April 8 scooped a jackpot worth $150,000.

Family Pantry Manager Satish Patel told Pioneer Press he doesn’t know the identity of the person who purchased the winning ticket.

“We found out [on] the Illinois Lottery app after the draw was over and the results were coming,” he said.

It’s not the store’s first time selling a winning ticket, Patel said — they sold another ticket that matched up with a $1 million jackpot a year ago and a third a few years before that.

He said the store has seen a spike in customers buying lottery tickets, hoping to replicate the luck of Friday’s ticket buyer.

“They say your store is a lucky store in our town,” Patel said.

He doesn’t yet know what the store will do with the $10,000 from the Illinois Lottery, he told Pioneer Press.

Shanks, of the Illinois Lottery, said, “There’s been at least one $1 million Lucky Day Lotto jackpot winner every month this year.”