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3 Illinois Players Win $1 Million On Lottery Scratch-Offs
The three lucky winners are the seventh, eighth, and ninth players to score prizes from the game's $1 million prize tier.
ILLINOIS — Three Illinois players each won $1 million on $10 Million Instant Ticket scratch-offs, and Illinois Lottery officials say there are still three $10 million prizes available.
One $1 million scratch-off was sold at Party House in Jacksonville, Illinois, while the other two were sold in Chicago — one at a BP gas station on Western Avenue and the other at Millennium News and Views on Randolph.
These three lucky winners are the seventh, eighth, and ninth players to score prizes from the game’s $1 million prize tier, according to lottery officials. The game includes three $10 million top prizes, 15 prizes of $1 million, and the best odds to win $500 on any scratch-off ticket currently available in Illinois.
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The businesses that sold the winning scratchers will each receive a selling bonus of one percent of the prize amount, or $10,000.
So far this year, more than 22 million Illinois Lottery Instant Tickets have been sold, netting players over $563 million in prizes.
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