SPRINGFIELD – One of the companies bidding to manage theIllinois lottery is promising to create an educational scholarshipprogram worth an estimated $35 million if it wins the potentiallylucrative competition.

A private company bidding to manage Illinois’ lottery says it would lessen the games’ reliance on low-income residents and award 20 percent of contracts to firms owned by women, minorities and the disabled.

(Crain’s) — British lottery firm Camelot Group pledged to donate up to $35 million of its profits to Illinois education if it wins a contract to manage the Illinois Lottery as final bids were filed Friday afternoon.

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If you want to attend the debate between gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman at Dominican University’s Angelico Hall, you’ll have to get lucky in a lottery, officials announced Thursday.

HELENA (AP) — The Montana Lottery says three large prizes won in March Powerball drawings remain unclaimed and the clock is ticking on the six-month time frame in which they can be claimed.

A controversial lottery system for secondary school places in Brighton failed in one of its key aims, to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.

England’s first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.