Gas station that sold $1B lottery ticket thinks theyll soon know who won: Like a murder mystery

It won’t take a billion guesses.The manager of the Illinois gas station that sold Wednesday night’s $1.04 billion winning Powerball lottery ticket is confident he’ll soon work out who the lucky winner is, even though they could try to remain secret.“I’d say probably 15% of our customers are traveling through town.The majority of our customers are regulars,” John Marshall, 47, manager of Hy-Vee Gas Fresh & Fast convenience store in Quincy, IL, told The Post Thursday.“We kind of know our regular customers, and I’ve seen the majority of them so far this morning,” he added, saying that the process of ruling out winners is “like a murder mystery.”“I sold tickets to some guys passing through this week, one was a maintenance worker working on my coffee machine.

I haven’t heard from him yet,” Marshall said, saying he doesn’t know “if he was from Illinois or if he was from Kansas City.”Marshall’s store gets a $500,000 cash bonus for selling Wednesday’s winner, the second-largest lottery prize ever won in Illinois and the eighth-largest jackpot in the game’s history.The winning numbers were 4, 26, 66, 67, 69, and Powerball 9.Marshall described the “great buzz” in Quincy, a small city of roughly 40,000 people on the Mississippi River, roughly 137 miles from St.

Louis, following the huge win.“Everyone who’s come in today is happy.Not super happy because they didn’t win, but they’re just happy to have the community on the map,” he said.“Our regulars are like, ‘Oh, that’s my store,’ and they’re all excited,” he said.Marshall described Quincy as a “nice, quiet river town,” complete with the famed Midwestern friendliness.“It kind of makes you feel you’ve traveled back in time because there are people that care.

If there’s a neighbor in need, they’re always up to help them.There’s still a lot of caring people in Quincy.

It’s a great community,” he said.“I always tell my customers, ‘Get t...