An Illinois woman has been charged with attempted theft and forgery for trying to forge a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket. more ›

Meet Merle and Patricia Butler, the Illinois winners of last month's record-setting $656 million Mega Millions jackpot. more ›

Someone in Illinois is very rich today. Very rich. more ›

The original projection for the Mega Millions was $476 million, and the jackpot has been growing as anticipation builds that someone may finally win for the first time since a Georgia woman won $72 million in January. more ›

When we tried to buy our Mega Millions lottery ticket last night at the local 7-11, the lottery machine was down. No way to get in on the potential $95 million jackpot. Maybe we would have purchased the winning ticket, who knows. But the good news is no one drew the five winning numbers, and thus, the jackpot has grown to a cool $114 million for next Tuesday’s drawing. more ›

Go buy your tickets, people. The jackpots of two different lotteries have grown significantly over the weekend, after no jackpot winner selected all the winning numbers in each game. more ›

No one drew the winning combination for the Mega Millions last night, so the jackpot has now grown to $163 million. Folks, that’s winning “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” 163 times! Illinois is just one of twelve states where we can play the Mega Millions. Twenty-one second prizes were drawn last night, though, each person winning $250,000 for matching five of the winning numbers. Two of those tickets were sold in Illinois -- one in Niles, and the other in Park Forest. 83 people picked four of the numbers, each winning $10,000. Six sold in Illinois. more ›

Chicagoist isn't really one to gamble much, but when there's a chance at $200 million and we only have to pay a couple bucks for that chance, you don't have to twist our arm very hard. more ›