CHICAGO — Over 1,000 Powerball tickets are up for grabs in Chicago ahead of Wednesday night's record-breaking $1.3 billion jackpot.

The Illinois Lottery is hosting a Powerball Ticket Grab Challenge with its popular "Ticket Grab Machine" at Hyde Park Station and Car Wash, located at 5130 South Lake Park Avenue, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Participants will get a chance to step inside the machine and grab as many tickets as they can.

Wednesday night's drawing is the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and the ninth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S history.

If you can't make the event? Don't fret. Powerball tickets are available at nearly 7,000 retailers statewide for $2 each.

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