While no one won Wednesday night’s $20 million Powerball jackpot, one lucky Illinois Lottery player woke up Thursday feeling like half a million dollars after winning that amount in the Powerball drawing.
The winning Powerball ticket was purchased at Jewel Osco, located at 443 E. 35th Street in Chicago, for the January 3 drawing. The lucky winner matched four numbers and the Powerball, plus they added the game’s ‘Power Play’ feature to win the $500,000 prize.
The winning Powerball numbers in the Wednesday, January 3 drawing were 30-31-38-48-68 and the Powerball number was 8.
For selling the winning ticket, the Jewel on E. 35th Street in Chicago will receive a one percent selling bonus, or $5,000.
In total, almost 13,000 winning tickets were purchased by Illinois Lottery players for the Wednesday, January 3 Powerball drawing, netting players nearly $700,000 in prizes.
The Illinois Lottery encourages all lucky winners to write their name on the back of their ticket and keep it in a safe place until they’re ready to claim their prize. Winners have one year from the date of the winning draw to claim their prize.
Powerball tickets are $2 each, and players have the option to add the Powerplay for an additional $1 for the chance to multiply non-jackpot prizes.
The next Powerball drawing is Saturday night, January 6 at 9:59 p.m (CT). The jackpot up for grabs is an estimated $35 million.
About the Illinois Lottery:
Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $24 billion (since 1985) to the state’s Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes. For more information, visit IllinoisLottery.com.
