Check Your Tickets: $1 Million Powerball Winner Sold in Illinois

If you've been playing the Powerball lately, you might be holding a winning ticket worth $1 million.

I keep telling myself that eventually I'm going to have one of those moments where I finally check my ticket and it's the winning ticket.  Every time I end up disappointing myself!

Then I see stories like this and it makes me want to play just one more time..

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Someone in Illinois is sitting on a $1 million Powerball ticket after buying it at Jewel-Osco in Spring Grove.  The ticket matched all five white ball numbers: 17, 21, 29, 42 and 49, along with the Powerball number 7.

You could literally be stopping at Jewel-Osco for groceries, grab a Powerball ticket while you're there, put it in your pocket and completely forget about it.  Meanwhile, you're walking around with a million dollars.

Somewhere out there is a person who probably has no idea yet that they won.  And if you happen to have bought a Powerball ticket in Spring Grove's Jewel-Osco lately,  double check your tickets!

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The store will get a $10,000 bonus for selling it.  And whoever has that million-dollar ticket has one year from the drawing date to claim the prize.

This is just one of the recent lottery wins in Illinois! $200,000 Lucky Day Lotto tickets were sold In Crete & Rochelle, a Des Plaines woman hit a $2M lottery jackpot, and the $1.04 Billion Powerball Winner finally just claimed their prize.  Next time, it might be you on this list! The Powerball might be calling your name.