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CHICAGO — A Illinois lottery player has won a whopping $2 million on a Powerball ticket bought online. The ticket was purchased online for the Oct. 7 drawing and matched all five numbers to win ...
Lotto is an Illinois-only game that is played three times a week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The current jackpot is $9,050,000 for the next drawing on Thursday, Jan. 11.
Big Money D scored the life-changing sum by matching the five meaningful numbers of 9-11-12-13-17, Illinois lottery officials said. He did not explain how the numbers related to his late wife.
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The Illinois Lottery says the winner matched all five numbers of 2-3-24-25-28 in the Sunday evening drawing to win the $1 million jackpot. The ticket was purchased at the […]
Illinois Lottery proceeds currently benefit three major areas: 1) the state's Common School Fund (CSF), which helps finance K–12 public schools; 2) The Capital Projects Fund, used for infrastructure improvements and job creation and 3) special causes like Illinois veterans, breast cancer charities and research, assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis research.
The story caused a sensation. Embarrassed state politicians publicly criticized the lottery’s handling of the game, and national outlets like The Washington Post, HuffPost and Fox News picked up the story. Readers wrote to the Globe saying that they knew all along that they were getting screwed.
A lottery machine jam turned out to be a blessing after it made one Illinois Lottery player $9.2 million richer.. The winning $2 Lotto ticket was purchased on Aug. 24 in Addison, about 20 miles ...