Someone in Illinois Won a Half Million Bucks & Doesn’t Know It

Couple questions for you. First, do you live in or have you been in Illinois recently? Second question - have you stopped at a gas station in the Land of Lincoln lately? If you can answer yes to both questions, it's quite possible you are a half million bucks richer and don't even know it.

I tend to be a curious person and decided to take a look at the unclaimed jackpot and daily grand prizes page from the Illinois Lottery. It shows that a recent winner just hit it big - real big. Does this gas station in Illinois look familiar to you?

This is the BP station located at 2758 N Harlem, Elmwood Park, Illinois. The Illinois Lottery says that someone bought a Lucky Day Lotto ticket on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 and won $550,001!

The good news is you don't have to panic if that happens to be you. You have one year from the date you bought the ticket to claim your prize. But, if you knew you were a half million dollars richer, you'd want to know it, right?