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"An East St. Louis man says the Illinois Lottery Control Board refused to pay him for a winning lottery ticket.<br /><br />Johnnie Cooper filed suit April 14 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Illinois Lottery Control Board.<br /><br />Cooper says he purchased a lottery ticket on Aug. 28, 2007.<br /><br />The ticket contained the winning numbers, but the Illinois Lottery Control Board refused to pay Cooper for it, he says.<br /><br />Cooper does not state how much money he should have received.<br /><br />Cooper, who is representing himself, is asking the court to declare him to be in possession of a winning ticket and entitled to the lottery payout of the Mega Millions Lottery Game.<br /><br /><i>St. Clair County Circuit Court case number: 09-L-190.</i><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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