Two Illinois iLottery Players Strike It Big
CHICAGO, August 5, 2025 — Two Illinois iLottery players struck it big last night, each scoring a staggering prize of $1 million or more.
One lucky online player won a whopping $1,742,056 jackpot playing Ultimate Diamond Jackpot, a FastPlay progressive jackpot game exclusive to the Illinois Lottery. The jackpot starts at $75,000 and increases with every ticket sold across the state—both in-store and online—until someone wins.
This is the 10th time a player has taken home a prize of $1 million or more with Ultimate Diamond Jackpot since the game launched in May 2024. So far this year, nearly 693,000 winning tickets have been sold, awarding more than $46.2 million in prizes to players statewide.
The second big iLottery winner won a cool $1 million prize playing Lotto. The winner matched all six Lotto Million 1 numbers in the Monday, August 4 drawing: 2-7-12-15-25-29.
This marks the fifth time in 2025 that a Lotto player has won $1 million or more. So far this year, over four million winning Lotto game tickets have been sold, with total prize payouts surpassing $28.5 million to lucky players across Illinois.
Lotto is an Illinois-only game that is played three times a week on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. The estimated jackpot for the upcoming Thursday, August 7 drawing is $13.4 million.
Tickets for both Ultimate Diamond Jackpot and Lotto are available in-store, online, or on the Illinois Lottery app.
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The Illinois Lottery reminds players to play for fun, not funds. Be Smart, Play Smart®. Must be 18 or older to play. Game odds available at IllinoisLottery.com.
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About the Illinois Lottery
The Illinois Lottery, founded in 1974, has contributed over $25 billion to the State’s Common School Fund in support of K-12 public education in Illinois since 1985. The Common School Fund is the Illinois Lottery’s primary beneficiary, receiving nearly 99% of Illinois Lottery proceeds. The Illinois Lottery also supports various specialty causes as described in the Illinois Lottery Law (20 ILCS 1605/21.4). For more information about the Illinois Lottery and the causes we support, please visit IllinoisLottery.com.