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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

UPDATE: Batavia Woman Claims $7.2 Million Lotto Prize

She’s a 33-year Batavia resident. Here’s her name and reaction to winning.

A longtime Batavian has claimed what could be the city’s biggest Lotto prize. Ancelma Martinez is the winner of a $7.25 million Lotto jackpot, according to an Illinois Lottery news release sent on Tuesday. She won the Dec. 17 regular Lotto game drawing by matching all six numbers. “I was very surprised, I still can’t believe I won,” Martinez said in the release. Martinez found out she won when she read the winning numbers in a newspaper while eating breakfast with her husband at Lumes Pancake House, 1902 W. Fabyan Parkway. The release said she almost spilled her coffee everywhere when she saw 2-15-18-23-50-52, aka the exact numbers on her ticket. Martinez chose to take a one-time, lump sum payment of $5,513,306, minus the required …

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Batavia 7-Eleven Sells Winning Lotto Ticket Worth $7.2 Million, Lumes, 7 Eleven, and 2 more ›

Kelli Trejo

1:24 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Congrats to the winner! What a fun story to read!!   more ›

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Batavia 7-Eleven Sells Winning Lotto Ticket Worth $7.2 Million

This is the second 7-Eleven location in Batavia this year to sell a ticket worth millions. Here's more details.

A trip to a Batavia 7-Eleven this week helped someone become $7 million richer. The 7-Eleven at 336 East Wilson St. sold a winning lottery ticket worth $7.25 million, according to the Illinois Lottery website. A Quick Pick ticket sold in Batavia matched all six numbers in Monday’s regular Lotto game drawing. The winner has not stepped forward as of Tuesday afternoon, Wilson Street franchise owner Rick Niedfeldt told the Kane County Chronicle. These were the winning numbers: The extra shot number was 25. Niedfeldt has never sold a winning ticket worth so much—he hopes the winner is a Batavia resident, the Chronicle's story said. Players with winning tickets of a $1 million prize or more have to call the lottery’s claim office at 217-524-…

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7 Eleven, 7-Eleven, Batavia 7-Eleven Sold Winning Lotto Ticket Worth $3 Million, and 1 more ›

antigambler

11:54 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012

The LOOTtery LIES when they say that LOOTtery money benefits schools. What difference does it make if the LOOTtery provides 9.6% or 96% of the state's annual contribution to K-12 public schools? Either way, the schools are in the same awful shape. The over-all school budget stays the same.   more ›

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