Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford

 Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford Attends DuPage County Fair

 Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford visited DuPage County Fair on Wednesday, July 24 to promote his I-Cash program.  The I-Cash booth will be present at the fair today through Sunday, July 28, and staff will be available to help anyone wishing to find out if the state is holding any money or unclaimed property entitled to them. 490,870 owners in DuPage County have $134,828,804 in unclaimed property, according to the July list of unclaimed property holders.

 “The DuPage County Fair is a wonderful family event.  I hope that those attending will take a moment to check their name and names of family members to see if they have money waiting for them through I-Cash,” said Treasurer Rutherford. “I encourage fairgoers to stop by our I-Cash booth for assistance in locating unclaimed money or property, and if you can’t make it out be sure to visit our website at www.treasurer.il.gov.” 

 The treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Division’s costs, including staff, computers and travel, are paid for through the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund, and not by tax dollars.

 The Unclaimed Property Division has more than $1.7 billion in cash, plus contents from Illinois safe deposit boxes that have been inactive for at least five years. During Treasurer Rutherford’s first year in office, the program returned more than $100 million to the people who owned those assets. The total for 2012 was $129 million, a 27 percent increase over the previous year. In past administrations, the I-Cash program returned about $80 million annually. 

 To find out if you have unclaimed property through I-Cash, you can visit the treasurer’s website at www.treasurer.il.gov and follow the I-Cash link. You can contact the Unclaimed Property Division by calling 217-785-6998 or emailing info@Icash.Illinois.gov, although searches cannot be completed by telephone.