Winning lottery ticket sold in Loves Park    

Mathew Chacko, a manager at Loves Park Clark Gas in Loves Park, sold a $400,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket for the Thursday, March 24 evening draw.

A gas and convenience store in northwest Illinois is feeling the love after selling a $400,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket!

Loves Park Clark Gas, located at 5710 N. 2nd St. in Loves Park, sold the winning ticket for the Thursday, March 24 evening drawing. The ticket matched all five numbers, 7-16-18-34-44, to win the jackpot.

It was a nice surprise for the store manager, Mathew Chacko, when he found out they’d recently sold a big winning ticket.

“A regular customer told me that our store sold the winning ticket,” exclaimed Chacko. “Although I don’t know the winner personally, I am ecstatic for them.”

The Loves Park Clark Gas store is no stranger to selling winning Lottery tickets.

“We have a lot of regular customers who come into the store to play the Lottery. There’s been times when people have won $10,000, $25,000 and even $300,000,” added Chacko.

For selling the winning ticket, the retailer will receive a bonus of $4,000, which is one percent of the prize amount.