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Co-Workers Win $250K With Lotto Ticket Purchased at Oak Lawn Store

Oak Lawn stores on winning streak selling third winning lottery ticket in two months.

If you accidentally step in some dog poop you’re best advised to clean off your shoes and then hurry over to Oak Lawn to buy a lottery ticket.

Five men who work together at Peoples Gas in Chicago won $250,000 playing the Mega Millions game with a ticket they purchased at

The Mega Millions win marks the third time that a winning lotto ticket has been purchased at an Oak Lawn business.

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sold a Little Lotto winner that made someone $250,000 in October. Lightning struck again a few weeks later, when someone played five winning numbers in the Powerball game with a ticket bought at the

One of the winners, Robert Conner of Oak Lawn, said that he and his co-workers have been playing together as a group for ten years. Each player kicks in $25 when the Mega Millions jackpot is over $100 million.

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The other winners did not want to give their names, although for some reason, they allowed the Illinois Lottery to take their picture.

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