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You can't win if you don't buy a lottery ticket.

If you die will the lottery honor the 30 year annuity?

A little over a month ago, $1.33 billion, the third-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was won by someone who purchased their Mega Millions ticket right here in Illinois at a Speedway gas station in Des Plaines. When you look at that kind of money, you wonder why the winner has not announced themselves to lottery officials yet.

Maybe you get really lucky this week and become a billionaire.

Someone won Saturday night's Powerball with a ticket worth $50,000. Could it have been you? The winning ticket was purchased at the Hy-Vee on Edgewood Road in Cedar Rapids and matched four out of the five numbers including the Powerball...