A Massive Unclaimed Lottery Prize Is About To Expire In Illinois

It's time to search every pocket, couch cushion, drawer, nook, and cranny you have because a huge Illinois lottery prize is about to go unclaimed.

The Illinois lottery is giving its final heads-up to anyone who thinks they may have a winning lottery ticket from October of 2023. This prize worth a quarter of a million dollars is waiting to be claimed. If it doesn't in the next couple of weeks, it will have been won for nothing.

Check Your Lottery Tickets!

Did you make a trip to Chicago in the past year and purchase a Lucky Day Lotto ticket? If that sounds familiar to you, it's time to start looking everywhere you can because you might be $250,000 richer.

The Illinois Lottery says that a Lucky Day Lotto ticket was purchased in Chicago last October and the lucky winner has less than two weeks left to claim their prize. The winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket was purchased for the October 29, 2023, drawing at Fairplay Finer Foods, located at 2200 South Western Avenue in Chicago.

Illinois Lottery officials winners have a year from the original drawing date to claim their prize, so the expiration date to claim this prize is quickly approaching. It's in less than 2 weeks.

Unclaimed Illinois Lottery Prizes

This unclaimed Lucky Day Lotto ticket is one of seven Illinois Lottery prizes currently unclaimed, all totaling nearly $4.5 million, according to lottery officials. Some of the other top-unclaimed prizes the Illinois Lottery is still looking winners for include: