With Northstar terminated, what will the Illinois Lottery do now?

Comment #15

Scratch$ — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:48:38 GMT

You got your wish on My3 - it's a goner

Comment #14

myturn — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:51:52 GMT

They should have given the contract to Camelot, they operate the UK lottery. It is the most successful lottery in the world.

Comment #13

Scratch$ — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:54:04 GMT

Illinois has a pretty decent lottery - their scratchers are some of the best in the nation. Hopefully they'll find a good management company that will keep them on the right course.

Comment #12

qutgnt — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:48:02 GMT

I was chatting with a retailer and he told me MY 3 and Hit or Miss will be gone, as no one buys them. I don't understand why they create these games as they are just smoke and mirrors. Unless you can tinker with the payback percentage offering more games with the same payback just dilutes the pool. Only so much money to go around and churn.

My last straw was when Northstar changed the Lucky Day Lotto matrix to 1 of 45 making it more than doubly hard to hit the jackpot. They mislead in the adv... [ More ]

Comment #11

rage — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:28:02 GMT

I agree with getting rid of my3. It is a complete waste of money. I would also like to see Hit or Miss go.

Comment #10

Coin Toss — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 23:12:02 GMT

I'd rather see them get rid of all the gimmicks - Extra Shot, Ez Match, etc, and restore things to what they were. Lucky Day Lotto was 5/39 for example, now it's 5/45.

On scratchers where you match a single digit number to win, usually a 5, 7, 8, or 9, two digit numbers were added to the player's numbers, no need for that.

Comment #9

uprrman — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:17:18 GMT

i hope they get rid of my3 but keep the fire ball in. much better odds to win with fireball

Comment #8

rage — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:15:54 GMT

It is about time that they fired Northstar. We have way too many games and way too many scratchoffs that do not seem to be paying out all that much. Maybe we will get back to basics and drop some of the gimmick games.

Comment #7

HaveABall — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:32:49 GMT

Hello, TnTicketlosers, depends on what benchmarks you have chosen. For example, a few Illinois Governors have received/served fairly long prison sentences these past few decades. However, several additional Congressors, Senators, Governors, and Mayors should have been impeached and imprisoned serving decade long terms and returning multiple millions of dollars swindled from ever decreasing amount of State Self Service and Income Tax payers.

This is why Chicago Metro Area is referred to as th... [ More ]

Comment #6

Gleno — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:39:10 GMT

Todd

Thanks for the lottery news and keeping us up to date.

Comment #5

alsports2000 — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:33:25 GMT

Texas should do the same and fire whoever is responsible for out of state lotto winners. Texas is notorious for NOT producing more millionaires due to other states selling winning lottery tickets.....

Comment #4

TnTicketlosers — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:46:42 GMT

Isnt Tennessee more corrupted that Illinois,I think Tennessee rank in the 4 spot for the year....Pretty bad....

Comment #3

Romancandle — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:16:00 GMT

Hopefully add more transparency on the business side of operations for the players.

That would be a good start... but then again, this is IL

Comment #2

Tialuvslotto — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:21:15 GMT

But what Quinn hasn't yet acknowledged though it was clear to many observers four years ago was that the whole process by which the state of Illinois selected Northstar in the first place was riddled with highly questionable moves, as the Auditor General of Illinois subsequently addressed in a damning report his office issued in June of 2011.

Wow! Corruption in Illinois??? Whoda thunk it

Comment #1

Coin Toss — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:38:14 GMT

Who knows what's next, just hope it isn't another Northstar.

I'm not sure if this really would help Quinn to get re-elcted, or that he needs it to get re-elected.

With Northstar terminated, what will the Illinois Lottery do now?

Lottery Post — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 02:27:50 GMT

So what's next for the Illinois Lottery?

That's the big question looming in the wake of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's politically-expedient move late last week to fire Northstar Lottery Group. Quinn made history late in 2010 when he inked a 10-year contract with Northstar to become the first-ever private manager of any state lottery in the nation. Two other states now have private lottery managers Indiana and New Jersey.

Quinn's move last week to terminate Northstar may prove too little too la... [ More ]