Illinois lottery sales jump 22% – Quad City Times

Lottery sales in fiscal year 2021 surged 22% to more than $3.4 billion, the highest total since the Illinois Lottery began operation in 1975. Illinois received $786 million in tax revenue from the lottery — more than half of its 2021 gaming tax revenue — with most of it distributed to the state’s Common School Fund.
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Willowglen
4 years ago

A highly regressive tax

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