$250,000 ticket sold in Rock Falls; lottery winner not yet known
ROCK FALLS – A Mega Millions lottery ticket worth a cool 250,000 clams was sold Tuesday at Express Lane, 1111 U.S. Route 30, state lottery officials said in a news release.
The name of the new quarter-of-a-millionaire was not yet known Thursday.
The ticket was one of two winning second-place Mega Millions tickets sold in Illinois; the other was sold in Waukegan. No one won the $37 million jackpot, which rolls over to an estimated $47 million for tonight’s drawing.
The second-place winners matched all five numbers, but missed the Mega Ball.
The winning numbers were 10, 11, 34, 37 and 50 with a Mega Ball number of 12.
Mega Millions tickets are sold in California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
For more information, go to www.illinoislottery.com online.
