(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the country keep on taking in more unclaimed money each 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 that can be claimed across the country. Even for the handful who have learned the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to find these monies eludes them most of the time.

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 better odds of locating a claim in your name, especially after you consider that the state has just under 13 million people and there are over 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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Project Economy: Find Out If You Have Unclaimed Money – Pittsburgh Channel
The commonwealth's unclaimed property fund has a total of about $1.5 billion — including $72 million in Allegheny County alone — that you either forgot about or never knew about, like inactive bank accounts, uncashed paychecks, CDs, utility …

State Looking for Owners of Unclaimed Money (PAHomePage.com)
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY- Many of us have money out there just waiting to be claimed and we don't even know it. It's money that's now in the state's hands. And the Pennsylvania Treasury Department is trying to put that money back in your wallet.

Area cities have 'unclaimed property' coming their way – San Bernardino County Sun
Despite the recession and a monstrous deficit, there's a lot of money lying around at the state level. Literally, billions. Referred to as "unclaimed property," over $5 billion worth is being held by the office of State Controller John …