(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation continue to take in more unclaimed funds each year than they give back to the citizens. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of people do not believe that there are truly tens of billions of dollars that can be claimed across the country. 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 just a few states that holds 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 finding 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 list.

(to be continued)

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