(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States continue to take in more unclaimed property every year than they return to the rightful owners. Due to the fact that 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 those few who have realized the truth about unclaimed assets, 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 holds over a billion dollars on its own, and that means that if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even greater odds of tracking down a claim in your name, especially after you consider that the state has just under 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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