No one won Wednesday's Powerball. The next drawing is Saturday.
Saturday's Powerball jackpot has climbed to a staggering $550 million. That's a $350.1 million cash payout! Buy tickets on-line here. The Powerball drawing is held every Wednesday and Saturday at 9:59 p.m. The largest Powerball Jackpot cash payout to date was $384 million and was won on Nov. 28, 2012, in Arizona and Missouri. Half a billion dollars? What would you do with all that dough?
The Illinois Lottery has announced that a Skokie gas station sold a $200,000 lottery ticket on Tuesday.
A Marathon gas station in Skokie sold a $200,000 scratch off ticket on Tuesday, according to the Illinois Lottery Twitter account. The ticket? Blues Bingo. The winner, who is only being announced as Szabo L., paid $5 for the winning card. The scratch off may look complex, as it's one of those long rectangular shaped lotto tickets with hundreds of numbers. In short, though, it's pretty much like playing Bingo! The gas station that sold the winning ticket can be found at 3325 Howard St. in Skokie. -- Patch on Facebook
You can't win it unless you're in it! Remember to get a ticket—or 10 for the $150 million Powerball drawing on Saturday.
The Powerball has reached $150 million with the next drawing happening Saturday night, March 9. That's a $95.2 million cash payout! Wednesday's drawing produced no grand prize winner, but there was one $1 million winning ticket that had all five Powerball numbers. Lucky Local Evanston’s Shell Foods, 2494 Oakton St., recently sold a winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket for the March 4 drawing, making someone in the area $100,000 richer. On Feb. 6, a salesman from Streamwood won $1 million after purchasing a Powerball ticket at the Lake Villa Citgo at 400 E. Grand Ave., reported the Lake County News-Sun. The man's cash payout was $700,000. The Powerball drawing is held every Wednesday and Saturday at 9:59 p.m. The largest Powerball Jackpot to date…
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Jackpot climbs to $550 million.
In just a few hours, some lucky person might be half a billion dollars richer. The Powerball lottery drawing takes place Wednesday night at 9:59 p.m. Central Time. To find your nearest Illinois lottery retailer, click here. Each Powerball ticket cost $2. Players choose five numbers plus a sixth Powerball number. Players matching all six numbers can select an annuitized amount paid out over 29 years or a lump sum payment. For complete details, visit the Powerball website. ABC News reports lottery officials expect to sell more than 105,000 tickets every minute before the drawing. Despite the long odds for the big jackpot, the overall odds of winning a prize are considerably better at 1 in 55. Since the last drawing on Nov. 24, the Powerball…
Wednesday’s Lottery Powerball jackpot hit $500 million on Wednesday, and that can only go up higher, officials said.
Jozefa S. is an Illinois State Lottery winner with a bit of advice on playing the lottery: “you can’t win if you don’t play so go ahead and play.” A lot of people will be plucking down $2 for a Powerball ticket in one of the lottery’s biggest jackpots of the year. The jackpot is now $500 million and may grow larger by Wednesday’s drawing, lottery officials said. “When (the jackpot) is this large, it’s not unusual for the jackpot to go up. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets pumped up again,” said Chanele Newton, a Northstar Lottery Group spokesman. Northstar runs the Illinois State Lottery. A total of $200,000 tickets were sold in a half-hour span Tuesday in Illinois alone, Newton said. There has been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and …
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Andrew Ellia
4:27 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
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