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POWERBALL JACKPOT REACHES $277 MILLION

January 10, 2020

January Marks Powerball’s 10-Year Anniversary in Illinois

CHICAGO—Illinois players have the chance to win an estimated $277 million jackpot in Saturday’s Powerball drawing.

The winning numbers from Wednesday’s Powerball drawing were 2, 4, 7, 43 and 56, and the Powerball number was 22. While there was no jackpot winner in Wednesday night’s drawing, Illinois players won more than 25,000 prizes, ranging from $4 to $400. In all, players won more than $176,000 in Illinois.

The current $277 million Powerball jackpot is the game’s largest since June 2019. However, that’s just one reason to celebrate Powerball this month, as January marks the 10-year anniversary of Powerball being introduced in Illinois. Since the game launched in Illinois in 2010, the Illinois Lottery has:

  • Sold more than 800 million Powerball tickets
  • Awarded an estimated $337 million in Powerball prizes
  • Paid out $87 million in Powerball retailer commissions

QUICK POWERBALL FACTS

  • Current jackpot at $277 million; cash option of $188.4 million
  • Jackpots start at $40 million
  • Overall odds of winning the jackpot 1:292,201,338
  • Drawings are at 9:59 p.m. (CT) every Wednesday and Saturday

Illinois residents,18 and older, can purchase Powerball and all of the Illinois Lottery’s draw-based game tickets by using the Illinois Lottery’s mobile app. The free app is available for download on iOS and Android devices and offers any Illinois adult the chance to purchase lottery tickets on their smartphone. Players can also purchase their tickets online at illinoislottery.com and at more than 7,200 retailers statewide.

About the Illinois Lottery:

Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $21 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 like homelessness prevention, Illinois Veterans services, the fight against breast cancer, MS research, Special Olympics, police memorials and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to playing in-store, the Illinois Lottery offers online and mobile play for all draw-based Illinois Lottery games at illinoislottery.com. Players must be at least 18 years old.