Illinois Lottery Player wins $ 150,000 Powerball Prize from Casey’s in Clinton

Clinton, ill. (Wics) – A gas station in Central Illinois sold a winning powerball ticket of $ 150,000 for yesterday’s drawing.

The ticket was purchased in Casey’s General Store, located at 1161 W. State Hwy. 54 in Clinton, a city about 40 miles west of Champaign and home to just over 7,000 inhabitants.

The lucky winner matched four out of five numbers plus powerball in Wednesday’s drawing to score the $ 150,000 prize. The winning numbers were: 24-28-40-63-65, and the powerball number was 20.

A Powerball ticket is $ 2. For additional $ 1, this player added the game’s Power Play feature, which ended up tripling their total price at $ 150,000.

Over 14,000 winning tickets were purchased by Illinois Lottery players for Wednesday, March 5, Powerball drawing, and Netting players over $ 246,000 in prizes.

To sell the winning ticket, Casey’s in Clinton will receive a bonus of 1 percent of the premium amount or $ 1,500.

This is not the first time the dealer has sold a large winning lottery. Only two years ago, in March 2023, someone bought a $ 450,000 winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket at Casey’s in Clinton.

Already this year, over 413,000 winning powerball tickets have been sold in Illinois, with total prizes of more than $ 4.5 million for Illinois Lottery players.