(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the country keep on taking in more unclaimed funds each year than they hand back to the rightful owners. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people refuse to believe that there are really tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed across the country. Even for the handful who have realized the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to locate these monies eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of only a few states that is holding over 1 billion dollars on its own, which means if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even greater odds of tracking down a claim in your name, especially after you factor in that the state has just under 13 million people and there are over 10 million names on the state's Illinois database.

(to be continued)

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