(Part 1 of 2)

In May of 2007, IL State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program currently holds almost $1.4 Billion 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 knowledge to locate it.

Sadly beyond just IL, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money each year than they return to the people. 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 the handful who have learned the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to locate these monies eludes them most of the time.

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 greater odds of tracking down a claim in your name, especially after you factor in that the state has less than 13 million people and there are over 10 million names on the state's IL database.

(to be continued)

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Indiana holding money for Mellencamp, Larry Bird – Republic
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Cash Unclaimed All Across the US: Cash Billions Owed to Americans – PRLog (free press release)
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Unclaimed money – 10Connects.com
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