Illinois woman "blessed" by $1 million lottery win has already given away $100,000

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zephbe — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:43:05 GMT

Illinois is an anonymous lottery state for prizes over $250,000. Hope her need for attention doesn't end badly.

Congratulations on the win.

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Ranett — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:57:50 GMT

Great job Toni.

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Bleudog101 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:41:54 GMT

Your story reminds me of that multi-million dollar Powerball winner from NC. There was a feature story of her and thug boyfriend that she kept bailing out. Showed all kinds of expensive ATV's tossed around on the property and mansion. Her Mom tried to knock some sense in her to no avail. Then her Pastor sued her for a huge chunk of change---not sure what happened with that.]

You're right, she'll give it all away to the sob stories.

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hlamb — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:26:59 GMT

If I read this correctly the clerk gave her a good bit of advice. Sign your ticket and go straight home, but it seems she sat outside the store in the parking lot for a while. I would advise people to not scream out alerting everyone within ear shot. I would quietly walk out of the store, but I never scratch them in the store anyhow. I usually scratch in my car or at home

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billybucks — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:09:17 GMT

She got only 460k probably if that game had a cash option or not I do not know. Probably does. So now she has 360k left from that million. Not even enough for a decent house. Maybe a down payment on one. When word gets out she is giving it away there will be lines outside her house with all kinds of sob stories. I only need 5000.00 to get my car fixed she will hear. OK, that isn't that much here you go. I need 2000.00 to bail my boyfriend out of jail would be the next request. Only 2000.00 sure,... [ More ]

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Bleudog101 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:33:15 GMT

Nice to pay it forward but taking care of #1 is more important IMHO. THEN help out others because when the coffers are empty, you'll have nothing.

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Lotterologist — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:02:14 GMT

Congrats

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rcbbuckeye — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:15:04 GMT

Very deserving win for a wonderful and lucky lady

Comment #1

quicksloth35 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:37:38 GMT

Be wise, but, enjoy! Congratulations

Illinois woman "blessed" by $1 million lottery win has already given away $100,000

Lottery Post — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:27:20 GMT

Lucky lottery winner does not hesitate to pay it forward

By Kate Northrop

An Illinois woman who was blessed by a $1 million lottery win has already given away $100,000.

There's one Illinois lottery player who's won several smaller prizes here and there, but once she finally came into a big win worth $1 million, her very first instinct was to figure out how she could pay it forward.

Antoinette Toni Green of Aurora brought in a winning scratch-off ticket worth $1 million to validat... [ More ]