(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" program currently holds 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 in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the country keep on taking in more unclaimed property annually than they give back to the citizens. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of 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 come to accept the truth about unclaimed properties, 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 is holding over 1 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 over 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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