The Illinois Treasurer’s Office under the care of Treasurer Michael Frerichs has now hit a historic landmark.  Frerich’s announced that the state has now returned over 1 billion dollars worth of unclaimed property to owners, businesses, and non-profits.

Frerichs says that unclaimed property is more than just property and accounts.

Frerich’s says it wasn’t easy at first to get to where we’re at now. The whole system needed to be revamped.

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