Organization
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company
Chicago bank; the nation’s seventh-largest in 1984, when a run led regulators to cover all its depositors.
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- How are Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company and … connected?
The FDIC’s history calls it the nation’s seventh-largest bank in 1984.
Connections 2
involved in
- Rescue of Continental Illinois, 1984 the bank that was rescued Primary record 1
headquartered in
Proof 1 source
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History of the Eighties: Lessons for the Future, Volume I, chapter 7: Continental Illinois and Too Big to Fail, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1997.
Primary record
As the nation’s seventh-largest bank, Continental forced regulators to recognize not only that very large institutions could fail but also that bank regulators needed to find satisfactory ways to cope with such failures.
Continental’s cross-town rival First Chicago
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