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In May of 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" program is holding nearly 1.4 Billion dollars in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it is out there and the knowledge to locate it.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money each year than they hand back to the people. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people do not believe that there are really tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for the handful who have come to accept the truth about unclaimed properties, the best way to find these monies eludes them more often than not.

The Prairie is State is one of just a few states that is holding over a billion dollars on its own, which means if you are a resident of Illinois then you have even better odds of locating a claim in your name, especially when you factor in that the state has less than 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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