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Illinois Lottery poised to suspend MegaMillions and PowerBall games

19th June 2017 8:12 am GMT

The Illinois Lottery will pull the plug on multi-state lottery games next week unless lawmakers are able to reach a deal on the state budget.

The lottery says it will suspend sales of PowerBall on June 28th and MegaMillions on June 30th, if the state is unable to agree a budget for fiscal year 2018. This is due to rules that require participating lotteries to have appropriations in place to pay out winnings on multi-state games.

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