Posted on 07/31/2022 6:50:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A single ticket bought in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot.
According to megamillions.com, 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.
“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. “We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!”
The jackpot was the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
Lottery officials had estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion, but revised the number up to $1.337 billion on Saturday.
The total prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $780.5 million.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
According 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. 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.
Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names and Illinois Lottery spokeswoman Emilia Mazur said the vast majority of those winners do just that.
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“State of Illinois gets $50 million or so of this. Good news for Pritzker.”
My first thought: “Why, God? WHY? Give it to one of our poorest states, NOT Illinois!” :)
Annuity is a terrible scam. The payout is non-equal. Late payments are much larger than early payments.
The hope obviously being that you die during the payment period. Yes, they hope you die before collecting all your winnings.
I don't need fancy cars or jewelry or clothes....
land....
Ahh, but think what you could do.
I’d pondered this. I would do like ElonMusk and hire a bunch of blood thirsty lawyers — and sic them on every local gov’mt or organization that pushes nanny laws. Like bans on plastic bags, gas cans that don’t work, etc. Every piddly-arsed Karen-friendly bit of crappola that has made life worth less in last 20 years. Sue and sue and sue. Either repeal the law or I will sue you personally for having pushed your personal fetish on everyone else.
Become the philanthropist from hell? Hmm that has possibilities.
I Applaud!!!!!
You know what’s amazing, is that CA has no taxes on lottery winnings. EFFING CALIFORNIA.
The thing is, that husband will lose most of his winnings in the divorce.🙄
Wait, what? Someone on here actually likes me?! (Faints!)
I don’t trust politicians. They change the tax code too much.
I’d take the lump sum payout.
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