CHICAGO — A $10 purchase turned into a $1 million return for Franklin Park woman Pamela Arscott.
The recent purchase of a $1,000,000 Celebration Ticket won Arscott the top prize in the drawing that’s celebrating the Illinois Lottery’s 50th anniversary this month.
“I was at Walmart the other night when I saw the new Celebration Instant Tickets, and they caught my eye, so I bought a $10 one,” Arscott explained in an Illinois Lottery press release. “I didn’t think anything of it. I actually put it in my purse and forgot about it until the next morning.”
When Arscott remembered it, she was in for quite a shock.
“I started scratching the ticket and saw I had a matching number for a million dollars,” Arscott recalled in the release. “I thought it was a mistake. I immediately woke up my daughter. I told her to run out to the store to scan it to double-check and make sure it’s real.