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In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program currently holds almost $1.4 Billion in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its true owners is the knowledge that it is out there waiting to be claimed and the knowledge to find it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money every year than they give back to the citizens. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of people do not believe that there are really tens of billions of dollars that can be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have learned the truth about unclaimed properties, the best way to find these monies eludes them most of the time.

The Prairie is State is one of those rare states that is holding over 1 billion dollars on its own, which means if you are a resident of Illinois then you have even greater 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 database.

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Kansans Find $826K In Unclaimed Money At Fair (KMBC-TV Kansas City)
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Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt (FOX 16 Little Rock)
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