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Illinois Lottery winner turns lunch break into $1 million payday with scratch-off ticket.

Two Illinois friends win $518K lottery jackpot after playing without their usual group using FastPlay tickets.

Someone stopped in this Belleville, Illinois store this week and walked out with a ticket now worth $5.6 million bucks.

2 people in Illinois now have winning $200,000 Powerball tickets and maybe don't know it yet.

A new millionaire just happened in one of the most unlikely places - an Illinois liquor store.

Two separate people in two different Illinois locations both won $275,000 at the same time this week, but don't know it yet.

Someone walked into a tiny Illinois grocery store this week and walked out with a $1 million dollar Powerball ticket, but they don't seem to know it yet.

The team took top honors at a recent international competition in California when the gasoline-fueled vehicle it created achieved a whopping 1,525 miles per gallon.

I used to ponder why I have never won a prize from the lottery. No big jackpots, no little ones, either. Why, I wondered, are all these people walking off with free tickets, hundred dollar, or thousand dollar, or million dollar prizes while I've gotten exactly jack squat? Short answer: I don't buy lottery tickets.

While the rest of the country had its eyes on a $700,000,000-plus jackpot a few days ago, a Palos Heights couple already knew they had big lottery money coming their way.