(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program is holding almost $1.4 Billion in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing standing between the cash and its true owners is the knowledge that it's out there waiting to be claimed and the ability to locate it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed property annually than they hand back to the rightful owners. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people do not believe that there are truly tens of billions of dollars that can be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have realized 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 only a few states that holds over a billion dollars on its own, which means if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even better odds of locating a claim in your name, especially when 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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