OAK LAWN, IL — After two years of hunting for the elusive queen, it took all of 20 minutes to find her in the Park Lawn Queen of Hearts Raffle ... hopes of winning the life-transforming jackpot.

After another garden skip, the children stamp and point angrily like the Queen of Hearts, then take part in ... such a curious croquet-ground in her life: the croquet balls were live hedgehogs ...