Illinois Lottery

A spokesperson said the lucky winner called the prize a “beautiful shock.”

A suburban man who ran to a local gas station to buy a soda for his wife ended the night as a millionaire after scoring a huge win on a scratch-off lottery ticket, according to the Illinois Lottery.

Check your lotto tickets, Illinois players: You may have just won $1.3 million dollars.

The lucky winners of a $349 million Mega Millions jackpot hit in a rural part of a far west Chicago suburb last month have officially claimed their prize.

A tourist visiting Chicago scored a winning lottery ticket just before leaving the city

A father-daughter duo won a multi-million dollar lottery prize after purchasing a scratch-off ticket at a suburban Jewel-Osco.

Consider this a sign that your lucky superstition may just work the next time you buy a lottery ticket.

A Chicago gas station owner feels like a “lucky penny” after his station sold another winning Lottery ticket last week.

An Illinois Lottery player is $1 million richer after they collected a jackpot from a ticket they purchased online.

The players each took home well over $100k from online winnings

A lucky Illinois Lottery player won $1 million on a Lotto Million 1 drawing earlier this week, according to lottery officials.

Lottery officials are continuing to search for the lucky winner of a $349 million Mega Millions jackpot, with the winning ticket being sold in DeKalb County.

Two lucky winners, one in Chicago and one in Aurora, each took home $250,000.

A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $349 million was sold in Cortland, Illinois. NBC Chicago’s Courtney Sisk reports.

A lucky Illinois lottery player just hit the Mega Millions jackpot.

It’s easy to picture how you might spend lottery prize money once it hits the bank, but what happens to the winnings left unclaimed?

Call it luck of the Irish: Chicago-area lottery players could wind up with a pot of gold thanks to St. Patrick’s Day events from the Illinois Lottery at some of the state’s “luckiest” retailers.

An Illinois Lottery player has less than two weeks remaining to claim a $100,000 prize, one of several high-value prizes left unclaimed.

An Illinois Lottery player fared extremely well in a recent Powerball drawing, though they didn’t walk away with the jackpot. One online lottery player matched five of the six numbers in Saturday’s $215 million Powerball drawing to claim a $1 million prize, according to the Illinois Lottery. The winning numbers were 7-18-22-50-65, along with the red Powerball 15. More...

A simple lottery ticket purchase led to a big win for one Illinois Lottery player.