https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/69370 Lottery Post Forum Topic: ? for ILLINOIS/Big Game (1998-1999) en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/69370/109885 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/69370/109885 Fri, 30 May 2003 05:56:40 GMT CASH Only I _swear_ somebody collected the Big Game jackpot in lump sum on an Illinois ticket about 4 1/2 years ago. Otherwise I would not have started this thread.

]]> CASH Only https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/69370 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/69370 Mon, 26 May 2003 09:01:08 GMT CASH Only I seem to remember Illinois jumping the gun and allowing at least one Big Game winner (after the 1998 change in Federal law allowing lotteries to give winners a 60-day window in which to choose cash or annuity) to collect their jackpot prize in lump sum, while it was a 5/50 + 1/25 game.The closest state to me, of the original six BG states, did not allow jackpot winners to choose cash until BG was changed to 5/50 + 1/36 in January 1999.Can anyone verify this for me?Remember that BG/now MM is r... [ More ]

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