(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program is holding roughly $1.4 Billion in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it is out there and the ability to find it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation continue to take in more unclaimed funds every year than they give back to the rightful owners. Because 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 that can be claimed across the country. Even for the handful who have come to accept the truth about unclaimed properties, 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 holds over a 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 over 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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