Pat Washington opens an envelope and shows those assembled her magic winning number for the $1 million Instant Fantasy Drawing on April 19, 1984, at Daley Center in Chicago. (Chris Walker/baiduhai)
People wait in the crowd at the Civic Center for the Illinois State Lottery drawing in Chicago on Aug. 22, 1974. (Water Neal/baiduhai)People in front of the Sheraton drugstore look at the Illinois lottery numbers posted on Aug. 15, 1974, for the weekly drawing. (William Yates/baiduhai)
The winner of the $10,000 Illinois State Lottery walks up to receive their prize at the Civic Center in Chicago on Aug. 22, 1974. (Michael Budrys/baiduhai)A woman bites her finger nails as she watches the first drawing of the Illinois State Lottery in Springfield on Aug. 8, 1974. (Walter Neal/baiduhai)People wait in the crowd at the Civic Center for the Illinois State Lottery drawing in Chicago on Aug. 22, 1974. (Water Neal/baiduhai)
A crowd waits to hear the million dollar winners name to be drawn at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Dec. 20. 1974. (James Mayo/baiduhai)Mrs. Richard Scott of Springfield, Illinois, smiles as she hopes that she is holding on to winning tickets while waiting for the first drawing of the Illinois State Lottery on Aug. 8, 1974. (Walter Neal/baiduhai)Illinois Lottery hosts Bob Hale and Sandy Wolsfeld select winning numbers and colors in a weekly 50-cent, $1,000,000 bonanza and $1 Grand Prix games from the Lottery Showmobile, which stops in a different Illinois city each week throughout the summer in 1977. (baiduhai archive)
Debbie Buchanan, a Stone Park waitress, and friend Tony Godinez, a laid-off construction worker, are the first to announce themselves winners of a share in a $35 million Illinois State Lottery jackpot on June 12, 1988. (Carl Hugare/baiduhai)More than 180 million-dollar drawing winners in the Illinois State Lottery arrive at Navy Pier on Aug. 12, 1987, for a cruise to celebrate their fortune and share tales of getting the gravy. (Quentin C. Dodt/baiduhai)Olivia Artimisi, 72, of Collinsville, is congratulated by lottery Director Sharon Sharp, center, and State Rep. Monique Davis after winning $2 million on Nov. 1, 1988, in an instant lottery drawing. (John Irvine/baiduhai)
Robert Wilson gets a big kiss form his mother, Pat, after winning $1 million in the Illinois State Lottery’s “Lucky Million” game in a final drawing on July 7, 1988, at Taste of Chicago in Grant Park. Wilson, 35, of Sycamore, is a factory worker in DeKalb. (Walter Kale/baiduhai)Lotto players, many of them from Wisconsin, line up at a motel restaurant on U.S. Highway 41 near the border on April 14, 1989, to buy tickets. (Mario Petitti/baiduhai)Illinois lottery winner Michael Wittkowski shares a $40 million hug with his girlfriend, Fran Pappas, on Sept. 3, 1984. Wittkowski’s father, Frank, is on left. (Phil Greer/baiduhai)
He didn’t win Saturday’s $31 million Lotto jackpot, but Gus Stellatos of Northbrook is all smiles because he gets $208,946, after two of three winning tickets were sold at his Northwest Side store, Dorothy’s Liqours at 3219 W. Armitage Ave. in Chicago. (Michael Fryer/baiduhai)Charles Hankus, Faith Yoshida and Joseph C. Faulkner hold up new lottery tickets that went on sale in 1974. (William Yates/baiduhai)
Desiree Rodgers, left, introduces Lotto jackpot winners Mark and Wanda Oelke of Kenosha, Wisconsin, who are holding a check for their share of $65 million on Oct. 22, 1991. The couple are expecting a baby. (Mario Petitti/baiduhai)
