Illinois Family Claims Other Half of Record Lottery
An Illinois family holds the second winning ticket to the record-breaking $363-million lottery jackpot that was drawn more than a week ago, lottery officials said Thursday.
The winners of the biggest lottery prize in U.S. history will be introduced at a news conference at 10:30 a.m. CDT today in Chicago.
They were identified only as a family from Lake County, which lies north of Chicago in the same county as the Lake Zurich convenience store where the Big Game lottery ticket was purchased.
The other winners sharing in the jackpot were a Michigan family from Shelby Township that accepted its oversized check for the cameras three days after the May 9 drawing.
The Ross family elected to take their lottery prize in a lump-sum payment of $90 million before taxes, rather than spread it out over 26 years.
Lottery officials gave no reason why the holders of Illinois’ winning ticket had waited to come forward.
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