(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just IL, state treasury departments across the country keep on taking in more unclaimed funds annually than they give back to the people. Due to the fact that 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 nationwide. Even for those few who have come to accept the truth about unclaimed properties, the best way to track these monies down eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of only a few states that is holding over a billion dollars on its own, and that means that if you are a resident of IL then you have even better odds of locating a claim in your name, especially when you consider that the state has just under 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's IL list.

(to be continued)

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