![]() ![]() For spaces on the Monopoly board, if you get all the properties of a single color - or the Railroads - you win a prize. These game stamps can correspond to either an instant prize, or they can correlate to a space on the Monopoly board. Every time you purchase certain items at McDonald's over the next couple weeks - any one of 26 different menu items - you'll get to peel off a game piece comprised of two stamps. Lottery probabilities are a ton of fun, and Monopoly statistics are even more interesting, so a Monopoly-themed lottery may as well be Christmas for stat geeks. McDonald's kicked off its annual Monopoly sweepstakes today, so of course we are thrilled to devour the stats. Jackpots don't come with happiness included.Wikimedia Commons Only a few Monopoly properties really matter. A little worse actually, he said, as he navigates this new reality. I told Jon I assume he sleeps better now after winning the million. He cashed in consistently with lottery scratch-off tickets, and he lighted up the slot machines at the casino. He wouldn't mind meeting someone sincere, and he's been thinking about buying a house next year.įor a while after winning the contest, Jon felt unstoppable. Jon has detected some flirtatiously gold-digger behavior by certain females during the past year, but he remains solidly single. He pays modest rent to his mom and stepdad, and he has sprung for a few improvements to the house. "Now I have a lot of advisers," he said, meaning a lawyer and the folks at his bank and credit union who advise him about being smart with his annually growing pot of money, especially knowing that it stops coming in 2030, when he's barely 50. Jon wants to find work - painting or perhaps delivering - but for the moment his life is a long vacation. "A lot of people say I look like a Cuban dictator on vacation," he says. On the day we met, he wore a Brewers shirt and shorts and an unusual brimmed cap. Jon has rewarded him with a week in Wisconsin Dells in summer and other treats.Īnd the million dollars would have gone to someone else if Jon had super-sized (McDonald's doesn't officially use that word anymore) to a bigger soda cup. ![]() It was Jon's nephew and godson, David Pietura Jr., who talked him into visiting McDonald's that day. According to McDonald's spokesman Jeff Dardis, Jon overcame odds of 1 in 3.1 billion by getting both. To win, he needed a Park Place and a Boardwalk peel tab, and one of each was affixed to his drink cup. The way Jon tells it, he was spending part of his last unemployment check on that day when he cruised into the drive-thru in his Chevy compact - the car he still drives - and bought a McRib meal. Even after Ronald McDonald handed him the ceremonial giant check, he still looks for coupons, bargains and two-for-one deals. Raised along with siblings by a single mother, Jon has a better understanding of getting by on too little money. Still, though, he goes to the mailbox and once a year finds a check that's nearly twice the annual income he used to earn in construction work before he was laid off in the lousy economy. So Jon is sort of an eventual millionaire (before taxes). ![]() The fast-food giant pays off the prize at a rate of $50,000 a year over 20 years. He still lives with his parents in the house where he grew up a few blocks from this McDonald's location. He was jobless before winning and remains so. The windfall hasn't changed Jon much, though strangers do sometimes recognize him on the street. This year's version of the Monopoly game began Tuesday. He was the only $1 million prize winner in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. and Highway 100 where he scored the winning game pieces last year. I talked to Jon this week at the McDonald's restaurant at National Ave. ![]() He has witnessed plenty of wins as the Brewers rose to National League Central Division champions this season, and he hopes to see many more in the postseason. Jon, a 30-year-old West Allis guy, won a million bucks a year ago in the Monopoly game run by McDonald's, and so far his only spending that comes close to being lavish has been for tickets to Miller Park. Jon Kehoe and the Milwaukee Brewers have hit the jackpot together. ![]()
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