A clerk at the Speedway store who answered the phone but declined to give his name said the store had not been officially notified that it sold the winning ticket and that he learned about it from reporters calling for comment. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.Īccording to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too it will receive half a million dollars just for selling the ticket. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $780.5 million.
The total prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Lottery officials had estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion, but revised the number up to $1.337 billion on Saturday. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15.
The jackpot was the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. “We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!” “We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website. CHICAGO (AP) - A single ticket bought in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot.Īccording to, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines.
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