After the Dec. 25 drawing, lottery officials said she was relaxing and watching television when she got an email notifying her of her win. At first, the woman admitted that she thought the email “was a glitch.” However, she soon realized it was real.

It was a winning weekend for Illinois Lottery players, with nearly $12.8 million in prizes won across three games, including an $11.6 million Lotto jackpot.

The two counties each saw more than $62 million in lottery ticket sales in fiscal year 2025.

Christmas could come early for one lucky Illinois Lottery player after Wednesday's drawing for the $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot. With a jackpot carrying the potential to be the fourth-largest lottery prize won in U.S. history on the line, hopes were ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda.

An Illinois Lottery player is officially a millionaire after buying a winning scratch-off ticket on Christmas Eve.

After a last-minute stop, an Illinois player won $3M on an Illinois Lottery Royal Riches ticket; the retailer earns a $30K bonus for the sale.

A southern Illinois woman won a huge prize on Christmas Eve in an Illinois Lottery game, but the big win almost didn’t happen. That’s because the woman from downstate Vandalia originally wanted to purchase a scratch-off Lottery ticket from a retailer,