Two weeks ago it was announced that someone who purchased a lottery ticket at the County Market store at 24th and Spring in Quincy had yet to claim it, and time was running out. Well, the hour glass is about to see the last of the sand to go through it. If that ticket is not claimed and presented to the Illinois Lottery officials by today, the ticket will be just paper with numbers on it. It goes
Someone in the Quincy area has possession of a Quick Pick Illinois Lottery ticket worth $275,000 and they probably don’t even know it. The ticket was purchased at the County Market at 24th and Spring store in Quincy.
What would you do if you found out this coming Monday that you had the one million dollar winning ticket and failed to claim it in time? That is the dilemma facing someone out there.
Every once in a while, like when the lottery is worth 620 million bucks, I buy a few tickets. To prove my point, I haven't purchased one since that mega drawing a few weeks ago. But there are thousands who do buy those tickets regularly and some of them might be able to be reimbursed by the Illinois Lottery.