A single ticket in Illinois won a Powerball jackpot of $1.04 billion Wednesday night, the game says. The winning ticket was purchased at a Hy-Vee gas station in Quincy, which is on the Mississippi River about halfway down the state.

The winning numbers were 4, 26, 66, 67 and 69, with a Powerball of 9.

The jackpot, which reached the $1 billion mark soon after Monday's drawing didn't produce a winner, was the eighth-largest Powerball grand prize ever and the 15th $1 billion prize in U.S. lottery history.

The cash value for a lump-sum payment was $450.5 million. Winners can also choose to take their prize in 30 payments over 29 years that increase by 5% per year. Both the lump sum payout and the annuity payout totals are before taxes.

Wednesday's jackpot was Powerball's biggest of 2026.

The last time a billion-dollar jackpot was won was last December, when one ticket in Arkansas had all the numbers for a $1.82 billion prize — Powerball's second-largest to date.

"We're thrilled for the winner and the retailer that sold the winning ticket," said Illinois Lottery president Harold Mays in a statement. The Hy-Vee will receive a $500,000 cash bonus for selling the jackpot ticket, CBS News Chicago reported.

Wednesday's drawing was the 44th since a Powerball jackpot was won on May 2, when tickets purchased in Florida and Texas split a $20 million prize.

The drawing was the first to possibly have a winner from the U.K., which began selling tickets in late July. Powerball is played in 45 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C. Tickets are $2 each.

The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are just 1 in 292.2 million.

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