{"id":253142,"date":"2022-07-30T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=253142"},"modified":"2022-07-30T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:50:20","slug":"ticket-bought-in-illinois-wins-1-337b-mega-millions-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=253142","title":{"rendered":"Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.337B Mega Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A ticket bought in a Chicago suburb has beaten the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. A lottery official says there is one winning ticket and it was purchased at a store in Des Plaines. The winning numbers drawn Friday night are: 13-36-45-57-67, with a Mega Ball of 14. The jackpot is the nation\u2019s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game\u2019s six selected numbers since April 15. That\u2019s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner. The $1.337 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night\u2019s drawing was an estimated $780.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A ticket bought in a Chicago suburb has beaten the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. A lottery official says there is one winning ticket and it was purchased at a store in Des Plaines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253151,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253142\/revisions\/253151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}