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Oswego gas station sells $1.3 million winning lottery ticket to Chicago area resident · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego gas station sells one point three million dollars winning
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  Speaker 1: lottery ticket to Chicago area resident. Written by Judy Harvey,
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  Speaker 1: this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. A Chicago area resident is celebrating
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  Speaker 1: after winning a one point three million dollars Lucky Day
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  Speaker 1: lotto jackpot from a ticket purchased in Oswego. The winner,
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  Speaker 1: who chose to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket at
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  Speaker 1: the Oswego BP located at twenty seven to ninety one
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  Speaker 1: US Route thirty four. I just stopped by the store
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  Speaker 1: for a drink and thought why not, the winner said
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  Speaker 1: in a news release from the Illinois Lottery. I played
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  Speaker 1: a quick pick and it turned out to be a
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  Speaker 1: Lucky Day. The ticket matched all five numbers in the
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  Speaker 1: June eleventh Evening Lucky Day Lotto drawing to score the
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  Speaker 1: game's one million, three hundred thousand dollars jackpot. The winning
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  Speaker 1: numbers were one, thirteen, nineteen, twenty seven, thirty five. The
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  Speaker 1: winner said he initially struggled to believe the news. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe it at first. I asked myself, am I dreaming?
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  Speaker 1: He said in the news release. Once I scanned the
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  Speaker 1: ticket and realized the numbers matched, reality set in. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't the first time the man has held a winning
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Lottery ticket. It's funny I actually won a forty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars prize playing the same game fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: ago when it was called Little Lotto, he said. The
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  Speaker 1: winner plans to use the prize money to purchase a
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  Speaker 1: new house and help provide financial security for himself and
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  Speaker 1: his wife's retirement. The Illinois Lottery stated in the release,
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  Speaker 1: we are just so grateful for this blessing. He said
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  Speaker 1: with a laugh, he said, I'm sure our kids will
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  Speaker 1: be too. For selling the jackpot winning ticket, the Oswego
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  Speaker 1: BP will receive a bonus of one percent of the
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  Speaker 1: prize amount, totaling thirteen thousand dollars,