Powerball Jackpot Now At $130 Million
No one matched all the numbers drawn Wednesday night for the Powerball lottery and the grand prize for the multi-state game rose from $110 million to an estimated $130 million.
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No one matched all the numbers drawn Wednesday night for the Powerball lottery and the grand prize for the multi-state game rose from $110 million to an estimated $130 million.
Baseball finally paid off for one Royals fans.
A Highland man plans to help his mother, start a college fund for his daughter and take his girlfriend to Red Lobster after winning $1 million in last night's historic $587.5 million Powerball drawing.
Powerball officials say tickets sold in Arizona and Missouri matched all six numbers to win the record $587.5 million jackpot.
OK, you are gonna go for the Powerball jackpot. It's more than a half BILLION dollars, for goodness sakes!
Powerball fever has been sweeping the nation, as the record jackpot climbed to $550 million on Wednesday.
With no one matching all the numbers picked in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, the grand prize for the multi-state lottery game is now the highest in the game's history, at an estimated $425 million.
The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night is now $250 million.
No one matched all the numbers picked in Saturday night's Powerball drawing and the jackpot for the multi-state lottery game rose to an estimated $185 million.
The next Powerball drawing will be held on Wednesday, and the grand prize for that game is an estimated $110 million.
No one matched all the numbers drawn in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, but a player in Palatine came close, collecting $1 million in the process.
Lottery vendors are busy as players snap up tickets for the $337 million Powerball drawing Wednesday night, while officials say online lottery ticket sales have been falling short of expectations.
A group of co-workers is $1 million richer after buying a Powerball ticket at a 7-Eleven in Lombard.
A change of lifestyle is ahead for Rose Juarez of west suburban Schiller Park, now that she has won $1 million in the new $2 Powerball drawing.
Saturday night's $70 million Powerball jackpot went to a player in New York state, but someone who bought their ticket on the South Side came out pretty well, though.
No doubt there are people throughout Illinois and 43 other states daydreaming about what they would do with the grand prize -- estimated at $325 million -- from Saturday night's Powerball drawing.
Everyone's attentions may be turned to the $325 million Powerball jackpot, but the growing grand prize for the Mega Millions lottery isn't anything to scoff at.
No one matched all the numbers drawn for the Powerball on Wednesday night and the jackpot increased to an estimated $200 million.
Lotto machines across Illinois are on overdrive as Chicagoans plunk down their money in hopes of being the big Powerball Jackpot winner.
Nobody hit the jackpot in Saturday night's $92 million inter-state Poweball drawing, and the pot is expected to grow to about $111 million.
Someone in Indiana is the winner of a $221.7 million jackpot in the Powerball Lottery.
Nobody matched the winning numbers in Saturday night's Powerball multi-state lottery drawing and the grand prize has increased to an estimated $67 million.
No one matched all the winning numbers in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, and the estimated jackpot has reached $155 million.
No one won the $82 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night, but two west suburban players came pretty close, and picked up $200,000 each in the process.
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