Illinois Lottery Results for Saturday Feb 04th, 2012

North Dakota's lottery may pursue using the Internet to sell tickets directly to buyers, a move touted as the "wave of the future" that some retailers fear will cost them business.Attorney General ...

JOLIET — Illinois will offer online Lottery ticket sales this spring, a move some applaud because it will add cash to state coffers but others think is a terrible idea.“We’re very troubled by it,” said Jerry Prosapio of Crestwood, who is co-founder of Gambling Exposed. “Any new form of legalized gambling has brought more addiction and with the addiction it brings additional bankruptcies and ...

As the Illinois Lottery moves ahead with plans to sell Lotto and Mega Millions tickets online, local retailers are split about whether the change will have a significant effect on their businesses. HOW TO READ THE FULL STORY

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EAST PEORIA, Ill-- The price to play a popular Illinois Lotto game went up 100 percent on Sunday. But the potential pay-off went up 500 percent.

When people come in to buy lottery tickets at Danny’s Market Place in Blue Island, they often spend money picking up additional staples — milk, lunch meat or bread.But store manager Bobby Patel worries that a shift to allow online lottery ticket sales in Illinois may wipe out some of that extra business. “Something like this hurts business owners,” Patel said.Time will tell.Illinois will begin ...

With hundreds of chances of becoming wealthy laying on the counter before them, Little Grocery customers were unaware of the changes the state has planned for the lottery.   The store ranks among the top five stores in Illinois in lottery sales, according to store manager Missy Simpson. But that could change when Illinois rolls out an online version of the lottery this spring.   It will allow ...

Eighty-five Illinois Lottery winners last week probably thought they were lucky -- until they tried to cash in their winnings, that is.

A Lombard man has hit the jackpot with the Illinois Lottery for a second time.

Illinois lottery officials are aiming to sell lottery tickets over the Internet by late March or April. But while state officials hope online ticket sales will bring millions of dollars of additional revenue to state government, some convenience store owners fear it will take away from their businesses.