High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Illinois Instant Riches (later known as Illinois` Luckiest) was a lottery game show airing in the state of Illinois, as well as nationally on Chicago-based Superstation WGN-TV. The show was hosted by former MTV VJ Mark Goodman, with Linda Kollmeyer (who still remains with the station doing lottery drawings) as his co-host and Bill Barber as announcer.