A ticketholder in Illinois bought the winning Mega Millions ticket as the jackpot reached $1.28bn.
“There is one jackpot-winning ticket, which was sold in Illinois,” Ohio Lottery Commission spokesperson Marie Kilbane told The Washington Post in an email.
The jackpot on the Mega Millions site now stands at $20m.
It’s the third time in two decades that the jackpot surpassed a billion dollars.
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