A 68-year-old Chicago man made the decision to retire a year earlier than he planned after winning a million-dollar jackpot thanks to a $10 scratch-off lottery ticket he bought at a liquor store. .
"I was going to retire next year, but now I don't have to wait"said the winner, whom the Illinois Lottery identified in the statement - cited by local press - as "Mr. M."
"It's time to focus on what really matters: my family. With this money, I can retire early and I will get closer to my children to be more present in their lives.Furthermore, I am a grandfather and the time has finally come to enjoy pampering my grandchildren."said the lucky winner, who is an industrial mechanic by profession.
When asked what he plans to do with the winnings, "Mr. M" responded, "I'm going to buy a condo near my kids and trade in my car for a van to help my daughter who is always paying shipping costs." of things; now I can be your delivery person and I won't charge you a cent.”
The winning 50X Payout ticket was purchased at Harlem Food & Liquors, located at 4850 N. Harlem Ave., in Harwood Heights, on Chicago's northwest side.
The establishment that sold the winning ticket will receive a cash sales bonus of one percent of the prize amount, which in this case means a bonus of 10 thousand dollars.
According to the store owner, Kuashik Patel, the winner is a regular customer and that day he bought the last 50X payment ticket from the store's machine.
"Then he came back the next day and said, 'Hey buddy, I made a million dollar profit!' "He was so happy and smiling so much, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," Patel concluded.
On the other hand, in an even more surprising event of good fortune, it was news in recent days that Jennifer Minton, a resident of Gloucester County, Virginia,won the lottery twice in the same week.
Minton took home a $50,000 first prize in the Virginia Lottery's Safari Quest online game and, a few days later, won the nearly $1 million jackpot while playing on his cell phone around a campfire.
The lucky woman said she was shocked after realizing that she was the winner of the grand prize of $912,936, when the jackpot was reset.
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