$1 million jackpot lottery ticket sold at Beverly store
Illinois Lottery officials said a $1 million jackpot winning ticket was sold at a beverage store in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood.
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Illinois Lottery officials said a $1 million jackpot winning ticket was sold at a beverage store in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood.
The prizes were for Monday's Powerball and Lucky Day Lotto drawings, lottery officials said.
The ticket also won an additional $4 for matching two of six numbers on two other lines of play.
A Braidwood man is having quite the 40th birthday after he won the jackpot from a lottery ticket given to him as a gift.
The ticket matched all five numbers in Monday's evening drawing.
The win comes after the winning ticket for the $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in Quincy, Illinois, last week.
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing, the game says.
It’s the eighth-largest jackpot in the game’s history. For the first time, players in the U.K. are participating.
The estimated cash value is more than $390 million. The next drawing is on Monday, Aug. 10.
The total is also the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history.
The online ticket matched all five numbers for the July 27 midday drawing.
The prize, worth $3,287,514, is the second-largest jackpot won for the Ultimate Diamond jackpot since it was introduced in 2020, lottery officials said.
The Mega Millions jackpot has now climbed to $458 million for Friday's drawing.
Lottery players in Washington, Illinois, are being asked to check their tickets after a single Lucky Day Lotto ticket was sold for Tuesday night's drawing.
The player said she bought the wrong ticket while watching a movie.
A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion, in Arkansas. It was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.
The jackpot for Wednesday's drawing soars to $1.7 billion.
The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $1.6 billion after no tickets matched all six winning numbers at Saturday night's drawing. It's the fifth-largest prize among U.S. lottery jackpots.
Across the country, five ticket holders won $1 million, and two won $2 million in the last drawing.
The lottery says more 480,000 tickets did win some kind of prize just not the big one.
The ticket matched all five white ball numbers along with the ticket's 3X multiplier to win the prize, lottery officials said.
The $1 million ticket for Monday's drawing was sold at the retail store, which will receive 1% of the prize for selling the ticket.
The player, who wanted to go by "Rex," said he used the same numbers from an old, tucked-away Powerball ticket, winning him $1 million in the Sept. 3 drawing.
The lucky winner purchased the winning ticket worth $750,000 at the Oak Park North Gas Mart at 6119 W. North Ave.
The Father bought the winning Powerball ticket after stopping for a car wash at the Exxon Mobil gas station in Bensenville last month.
