Cary's $1 Million Halloween Lottery Winner Revealed: Winner is 7-11 Store Owner

A day after the Halloween Millionaire Raffle drawing, Jay Patel knew his store sold a $1 million winning ticket. But it was one week before he realized the winning ticket was right in his own wallet.

Cary 7-11 owner Jay Patel said he was really excited when he heard his store at 296 Cary-Algonquin Road had sold one of four winning Illinois Lottery Halloween Millionaire Raffle tickets. But when a week went by with no winner coming foward, Patel said he finally looked in his wallet and found his own Halloween raffle ticket. Turns out, his ticket was the $1 million winner (number 279505). "I don't usually play the Halloween game," Patel said. "I didn't check the numbers right away, and then I found my ticket." Since then Patel and his wife, Dimpal, have been somewhat in a daze, they said. "This has felt like a dream," Dimpal Patel said. "Only today is it starting to feel like it's real." A representative from the Illinois Lottery on …

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