{"id":194256,"date":"2025-09-02T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194256\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:55:10","slug":"free-powerball-tickets-up-for-grabs-at-chicago-event-ahead-of-1-3b-jackpot-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194256\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Powerball tickets up for grabs at Chicago event ahead of $1.3B jackpot drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; With a record $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot on the line, the Illinois Lottery is bringing a free-ticket challenge to Chicago&#8217;s South Side this week.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">On Wednesday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Lottery will set up its &#8220;Ticket Grab Machine&#8221; at Hyde Park Station &amp; Car Wash, located at 5130 S. Lake Park Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The machine gives participants just a few seconds to grab as many tickets as they can, with more than 1,000 free tickets available. The giveaway will continue while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ticket-machine.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Powerball Ticket Grab Challenge | Illinois Lottery <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The Illinois Lottery says players who can\u2019t attend the event can still buy Powerball tickets at nearly 7,000 retailers across Illinois. Tickets cost $2 each, with an optional $1 Power Play to multiply non-jackpot winnings.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The Powerball drawing will be held on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The $1.3 billion jackpot is historic: it\u2019s the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and the ninth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was provided by the Illinois Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/hyde-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyde Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; With a record $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot on the line, the Illinois Lottery is bringing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,42016,5386,1818,6411,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-194256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-hyde-park","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-lottery","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115135048794638933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}