THE LOOP — The Illinois Lottery is searching for the owner of a $350,000 lotto ticket sold nearly a year ago in the Loop.
The winning ticket is set to expire after matching all five numbers — 07, 11, 24, 25, 26 — in the Aug. 16, 2016 evening Lucky Day Lotto drawing.
The ticket was sold by the A&B Convenience store in the atrium at the James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph St., lottery officials said Tuesday. Lottery winners have a year from the drawing date to claim their prize.
Unclaimed prizes are transferred to either the Common School Fund or the Capital Projects Fund, lottery officials said in a press release Tuesday.
Lotto winners can mail in their ticket or visit one of five prize claim centers in the state, including one in the Thompson Center.
The state is paying out large lottery prizes again after lawmakers passed a budget earlier this month. The years-long budget impasse caused the state to delay large lottery payouts in 2015 and briefly again earlier this month. Mega Millions and Powerball, two interstate lottery contests, briefly stopped selling tickets in Illinois due to the impasse.
The state draws Lucky Day Lotto numbers twice a day every day of the week.
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