The Chicago suburb of Des Plaines has made Mega Millions history after a $1.34 billion ticket was sold at a Speedway gas station. The winner has yet to claim their prize, but winners in Illinois can remain anonymous and have 12 months to claim their prize. The lucky store that sold the ticket is also poised to get half a million. From this drawing, 26 players nationwide won a million each, and 375 others scored $10,000.
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$1.34 Billion Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Chicago Suburb
18 comments
wtf is a kilometer
I'm salty asf
❤Only for fans over 18 year⤵️ Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine empr.ONLINE Brünette und eine andere Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenni ich 4 wählen würde
Guess they wanted money to stay in chicago
Shoulda been split up? I don't agree lol
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Huge ticket sold in one of the few states where your allowed to stay anonymous -_- how convenient
Wow! Illinois has some generous terms for winners to be able to claim their winnings as well as remain anonymous. It certainly gives winners ample time to choose their financial team (tax lawyer, tax accountant and financial planner) before claiming their prize.
It's only right that the winners can remain anonymous. Imagine how having all that money would be a burden if everywhere you went for the rest of your life all you saw were scavengers. 🤣🤟 Congratulations to the winner I pray this money serves you and your family and community in amazing and wonderful ways.
Leave the winner alone. They have every right to their privacy.
I won it, please dont tell anyone
EVIL WINS WHEN WE PROMOTE GAMBLING/TOILING.
I WOULD VENTURE THAT 90% of money lost, is from the addicted gambler.
Of all places, it had to be from Chiraq. Knowing that, hopefully they're not dumb with their money, like how they are with voting Beetlejuice into power.
rigged, also thats probably the worst place to win a lottery this big.
If I were the winner I would invest some money to crypto.
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Somebody told me this is a scam but I'm thinking it is a scam because the last three big prizes was always been anonymous
Well I'll won't be playing any lotteries again until the jackpot reaches over 250m again.