(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States keep on taking in more unclaimed property each year than they give back 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 across the country. Even for those few who have learned the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to locate these monies eludes them more often than not.

The Prairie is State is one of only a few states that holds over a billion dollars on its own, and that means that if you are a resident of Illinois then you have even greater odds of locating 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 database.

(to be continued)

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