A customer buys a PowerBall lottery ticket at a gas station on Jenkins Road.Chicago resident Clyde Gadlin says today’s $325 million Powerball drawing gives him a chance to dream.
The 65-year-old stopped Friday at a 7-Eleven on shopper-swarmed Michigan Avenue to buy his daily batch of lottery tickets, including Powerball.
The jackpot is the fourth largest in the game’s history. A single winner’s cash payout would be nearly $213 million before taxes.
Powerball jackpots have increased more rapidly since the ticket price doubled to $2 in January.
Gadlin says if he wins, he’d move back to his grandfather’s farm in Mississippi where he spent part of his childhood. He hasn’t been there for more than 20 years.