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.
The White Sox could muster only one run in the bottom of the 10th off Brad Lord.
The ages of the victims range from 33 to 49, police said.
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Two Chicago police officers were shot inside Swedish Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood on Saturday morning. One has since died.
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The suspect was later arrested following a nearby standoff blocks away from the shooting.
The officers were taken to Illinois Masonic, where one was pronounced dead, and another was listed in critical condition.
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Two Chicago police officers were shot inside Swedish Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood on Saturday morning.
President Trump is giving a press conference at the White House shortly after being evacuated from the nearby White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Two Chicago police officers were shot inside Swedish Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood on Saturday morning. One has since died.
The ages of the victims range from 33 to 49, police said.
Three people are in custody after police said an attempted traffic stop leads to an exchange of gunfire with Chicago police early Saturday morning.
An SUV crashed into a Chicago police car in The Loop early Saturday morning.
A mother in southwest suburban Morris, Illinois, is fighting for stiffer penalties for adults charged with grooming children. Some local lawmakers agree, saying Illinois' current law is too weak and puts kids in danger.
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The White Sox could muster only one run in the bottom of the 10th off Brad Lord.
Munetaka Murakami hit his 11th homer of the season and reliever Seranthony Domínguez struck out two in the ninth inning for his sixth save as the Chicago White Sox beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Friday night.
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Efforts were ramping up Friday night to support the family of a Little Village fruit vendor who was killed in a mass shooting that left three other people wounded earlier this week.
Zamil Limon's remains were found on the Howard Franklin Bridge in Tampa. His roommate was in custody, officials said.
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