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In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset 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's out there and the ability to find it.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation continue to take in more unclaimed property every year than they give back to the rightful owners. 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 track these monies down eludes them most of the time.

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

(to be continued)

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