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Chicago Banks Getting Bailout Funds

Crain's Chicago Business | Steve Daniels | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Midwest Banc Holdings Bailout, First Midwest Bancorp Bailout, Chicago Banks, Michael Scudder, Bailout, Chicago Banks Bailout, Northern Trust Bailout, Chicago News

Itasca-based First Midwest Bancorp Inc. on Monday became the third local bank to announce its participation in the federal financial rescue program. ...

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Chicago Bank To Get $1.5B From U.S. Treasury

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Northern Trust, Treasury Department, Bailout, Chicago Banks, Frederick H. Waddell, Chicago News

The Treasury Department will invest $1.5 billion in Northern Trust's senior preferred stock and warrants as part of the federal government's effort to...

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Financial Bailout Stiffing Many Chicago Banks

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: National Bank of Commerce, Government Bailout, Bailout, Northern Trust Corp., Robert Glickman, Chicago Business, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Chicago Banks, Corus Bankshares Inc., Chicago News

Like many Chicago execs, Robert Glickman is studying the fine print of the $700-billion federal financial rescue plan. "I don't think they'll buy a l...

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Another Banking Crisis: Chicago's Panic of 1896

Robert Loerzel | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Chicago Panic of 1896, Chicago Banks, Chicago News
Robert Loerzel

Throughout the 1800s, when the government barely regulated the financial markets at all, speculative bubbles and piles of bad loans caused several panics. History repeats itself. Here's the story of one panic--a series of bank collapses that hit Chicago in 1896.

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Wall Street Crisis: How Safe Are Chicago Community Banks?

Chicago Sun-Times | David Roeder | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Community Banks, Wall Street Crisis Chicago, Fdic, Wall Street Crisis, Chicago Banks, Economy, Chicago News

The big sign on your neighborhood bank might tell the time and temperature. But it won't tell you how your bank is weathering the credit crisis. It's...

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