{"id":812412,"date":"2026-08-13T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:58:13","slug":"winning-ticket-for-1b-powerball-jackpot-sold-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812412\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning ticket for $1B Powerball jackpot sold in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Powerball<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The ticket that won the jackpot Wednesday night was purchased at a Hy-Vee station in Quincy, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) 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.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear if the winner has come forward yet.<\/p>\n

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.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was the first Powerball jackpot won since May 2, when the top prize was $20 million, and the first since ticket sales began in the United Kingdom<\/a> last month. At $2 per play, the odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292 million.<\/p>\n

The $1.04 billion grand prize was the eighth-largest in Powerball history, game organizers said. Another lottery game, Mega Millions has also had a $1 billion jackpot winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations to our newest Powerball jackpot winner in Illinois,\u201d Stephen Durrell, chair of the Powerball Product Group and executive director of the Kansas Lottery, said in a statement. \u201cFor more than three decades, Powerball has shown that a winning ticket can be sold anywhere the game is played, giving every $2 ticket the chance to change not only a winner\u2019s life, but generations to come.”<\/p>\n

Four tickets sold for Wednesday’s drawing \u2014 in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina \u2014 hit five of the numbers but missed the Powerball number. They were worth $1 million apiece. A ticket sold in Massachusetts also matched all the numbers except the Powerball number, but won $2 million because of the \u201cPower Play\u201d multiplier option costing an extra $1 per play.<\/p>\n

More than 3 million tickets won lesser cash prizes.<\/p>\n

The Powerball jackpot resets to $20 million for the next drawing on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The record lottery jackpot still stands at just over $2 billion<\/a>, won with a Powerball ticket purchased in California in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2724,4,450,2808,451,3,13677,7645,624,452,453],"class_list":["post-812412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-associated-press","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-florida","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-st-louis","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}