A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1 billion jackpot, ending a three-month drought without a top-prize victor. The ticket that won the jackpot was purchased at a Hy-Vee station in Quincy, about 100 miles west of the state capital of Springfield along the Missouri border, Illinois Lottery officials said.
The winning numbers were 4-26-66-67-69 with the Powerball number of 9. It wasn’t immediately clear if the winner has come forward yet. The prize comes in the form of either an annuity of $1 billion paid over 29 years or a lump-sum payment of $450.5 million. Winners almost always take the lump sum.
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This $1.04 billion grand prize was the eighth-largest in Powerball history, game organizers said. Four tickets sold for the drawing — in Arizona, California, Florida, and North Carolina — hit five of the numbers but missed the Powerball number, and were worth $1 million apiece.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
