3 Anne Arundel Lottery Winners Head to Chicago For Shopping Spree

From MD Lottery and Gambling: Twelve excited Maryland Lottery winners will head to Chicago this weekend with the anticipation of bringing home a shopping cart full of free merchandise. The lucky winners from the Maryland Lottery’s holiday promotion will take part in a dream-come-true shopping spree.

Winners receive a two-night, three-day trip-for-two to Chicago, including airfare, hotel, welcome reception/dinner, $500 in spending cash and participation in the Warehouse Dash.

During the Dash, each winner has 90 seconds to run through a merchandise-filled warehouse and grab as many items as possible, ranging from designer purses to high-end electronics to outdoor grill sets and more. Winners and guests will have set roles -- one will push the shopping cart while the other tosses the merchandise into the basket. The winners are:

This is the second year in a row the Maryland Lottery awarded Warehouse Dash prizes. Last year, eight winners participated in the Dash, taking home a combined total of more than $166,000 in merchandise.

This year’s Holiday Cash & Dash second-chance promotion ran from October 24, 2016 through January 15, 2017. Players received entries into the contest by submitting non-winning holiday-themed scratch-offs into their My Lottery Rewards account. In addition to the 12 Warehouse Dash prizes, the Lottery awarded 756 other prizes including cash prizes of $10,000, $5,000 and $1,000, and 600 small merchandise prizes.

Since its inception in 1973, Maryland Lottery and Gaming has awarded more than $23.3 billion in prizes to Lottery players and more than $15 billion in Lottery revenue to the State of Maryland. One of Maryland’s largest revenue sources, the Lottery supports important state programs and services including education, public safety and health, human resources and the environment. For more information, go to mdlottery.com. Please remember to play responsibly and within your budget. For confidential help or information about gambling problems, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER.

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