Mega-Millions

Feeling lucky? The Mega Millions jackpot starts at $50 million now! But are the odds still stacked against you?

Someone in Rockford became a Millionaire after matching all five numbers on a Mega Millions lottery ticket bought at a Casey's General Store.

Last week, someone in Illinois bought a Mega Millions ticket online and matched all six numbers. That person has finally claimed their money!

Discover what winning a billion-dollar Illinois Lottery jackpot really means. The experts share what to know about massive Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots.

You can't win if you don't buy a lottery ticket.

A little over a month ago, $1.33 billion, the third-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was won by someone who purchased their Mega Millions ticket right here in Illinois at a Speedway gas station in Des Plaines. When you look at that kind of money, you wonder why the winner has not announced themselves to lottery officials yet.

If you happened to buy a lottery ticket from a certain Illinois convenience store, you might be nearly a billionaire now and not even now it.

One lucky Mega Millions lottery ticket-buyer in Illinois is going to be a billionaire following Friday night’s $1.337 billion drawing, but the question is are we ever going to know that person's name?

We saw the fifth highest jackpot in Illinois history last week. No winner means that we will get the third highest jackpot in Illinois history this week.

As of this writing, tonight's Mega Millions lottery jackpot stands at $660 million, which makes the 10pm drawing now the 3rd biggest jackpot ever. Only two billion-dollar jackpots have ever been higher; $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on October 23rd, 2018, and $1.050 billion won in Michigan on January 22nd, 2021.