Illinois Mega Millions Winning Numbers (November 2026)
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Last 50 draws: May 19 – Nov 6, 2026. Each number averages 3.6 appearances in 50 draws.
Last 100 draws: Nov 25, 2025 – Nov 6, 2026. Each number averages 7.1 appearances in 100 draws.
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The short version
Power Play is on sale in Illinois; Double Play is not, so an Illinois ticket tops out at $3 a line. At the jackpot standing after the November 6, 2026 draw, one $5 ticket bought in Illinois is worth $1.77 — 35 cents on the dollar once Illinois's 4.95% withholding comes off the jackpot, against $1.81 before it. A single winner of the $529 million jackpot who takes the cash keeps about $130.2 million in Illinois after the whole federal bill and Illinois's 4.95% withholding (every state). Mega Millions after taxes in Illinois: lump sum vs annuity.
What is different in Illinois
- Ticket price
- $5 a line
- Every $5 Mega Millions ticket has carried a built-in multiplier since April 2025; there is no separate add-on to buy.
- Prize structure
- Fixed, as the chart
- The published amounts are what you are paid — Illinois does not adjust them for sales.
- State withholding
- 4.95%
- Held back before the cheque is written, on top of 24% federal. What you finally owe is settled at filing.
- Minimum age
- 18
- Illinois Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher: four at 21 and one at 19.
Rules read from powerball.com and Illinois Lottery on September 22, 2026. Withholding rates and the calculator.
What an Illinois ticket is worth right now
The advertised jackpot is $529 million. The cash value is about $224 million, because the headline is a 30-year annuity and nobody takes it. At that jackpot our sales model puts the chance of having to share a win at enough that a winning ticket is worth 89% of the prize on average rather than all of it. Then Illinois withholds 4.95% — about $11 million of that cash value — and the federal 24% comes off on top of that. What a Illinois winner keeps after tax, beside every other state.
The withholding only comes off the jackpot term here, not off the whole figure. Nearly all of a ticket's non-jackpot value sits in the $4.00 and $7.00 tiers, which no state withholds on; taxing those too would push the number down in a way that happens to flatter our own conclusion, so we do not. The draw-by-draw chart behind this is on the Mega Millions page.
Hot and cold over the whole run
The drawing is national, so the frequencies are too — there is no Illinois hot number, only a Mega Millions one. Over the 942 draws since the game began drawing five numbers from 1 to 70, 10 has come up most (88 times against 67 expected) and 69 has waited longest, 59 draws.
10 has come up most often, 88 times. Each number averages about 67 over 942 draws, and whichever number happens to lead normally finishes around 19 ahead. 10 is 21 ahead, so this is an ordinary spread rather than a streak. 65 has come up least, 53 times.
Illinois Mega Millions questions
- Can you buy Power Play in Illinois?
- Yes. It costs $1 a play on top of the $2 ticket and multiplies every prize below the jackpot by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 — the 10 only when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less. We price that extra dollar at about 46 cents at a large jackpot and 50 cents when the 10× ball is in the drum.
- Is Double Play available in Illinois?
- No. 30 of the 48 Powerball lotteries offer Double Play and Illinois is not one of them, so a Illinois ticket tops out at $3 a line. powerball.com publishes the list, and says more lotteries may add it later.
- How much tax does Illinois take from a Mega Millions win?
- Illinois withholds 4.95%, on top of the 24% held back federally. On the cash value of the jackpot as it stands now that is about $11 million to the state alone. Withholding is not the final bill — what you actually owe is settled when you file. Run your own number through the calculator.
- Are Mega Millions prizes in Illinois the same as the national prize chart?
- Yes. Every prize below the jackpot is a set cash amount in Illinois, exactly as the national chart prints it. Only California pays pari-mutuel instead.
- How old do you have to be to play Mega Millions in Illinois?
- 18. Illinois Lottery sets it, and a winning ticket has to be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was bought.
- Where were the Illinois Mega Millions numbers drawn?
- In Tallahassee, Florida, like every Mega Millions drawing — one drawing serves all 47 jurisdictions. The numbers on this page are the same numbers as everywhere else; what the page adds is what they are worth to a Illinois ticket. The national analysis is here.
Where these facts come from
The winning numbers are cross-checked against more than one official source before they go up —
every source and every correction is listed. The
Illinois-specific rules were read from
powerball.com and
Illinois Lottery on September 22, 2026, and
bao draws jurisdictions re-reads the published lists on every run and fails if
either has moved. How the expected values are computed.