Illinois Lottery pushes for online expansion

Comment #4

jamella724 — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:56:59 GMT

This is a good news! A lot of players will enjoy playing online. I hope more players will win from this online games too

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rdgrnr — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:53:11 GMT

...the online sales are less than one-half of 1 percent of the lottery's total take.

What I'd like to know is if there's been any negative effect on the sales of store-bought tickets, if they can tell with only one-half of 1 percent.

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helpmewin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:42:53 GMT

Comment #1

Original Bey — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:29:00 GMT

The future is now

Illinois Lottery pushes for online expansion

Lottery Post — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:51:54 GMT

The Illinois Senate could soon decide to increase the number of ways you can play the lottery online.

A committee has passed a bill that would allow players to wager on any of the draw-based games that is, in which the winning numbers are randomly selected, as in Pick 3 and Pick 4.

Right now, only Lotto, Mega Millions, and Powerball are draw-based games available online. The legislation would expand that opportunity to all seven, plus any draw-based games the lottery would add in the futur... [ More ]