Community Reinvestment Act

Community Reinvestment Act

In accordance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Regulation BB, First Bank Chicago is required to maintain and make available for public inspection a complete CRA Public File. For your convenience, we've made the information available on our website.

Illinois Community Reinvestment Act Notice

Under the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act (ILCRA), the Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (Secretary) evaluates our record of helping to meet the credit needs of this community consistent with safe and sound operations. The Secretary also takes this record into account when deciding on certain applications submitted by us.

Your involvement is encouraged.

You are entitled to certain information about our operations and our performance under the ILCRA, including, for example, information about our branches, such as their location and services provided at them; the public section of our most recent ILCRA Performance Evaluation, prepared by the Secretary; and comments received from the public relating to our performance in helping to meet community credit needs, as well as our responses to those comments. You may review this information today.

At least 30 days before the beginning of each quarter, the Secretary publishes a list of the banks that are scheduled for ILCRA examination in that quarter. This list is available from the Secretary at 320 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, IL 62786 and 555 West Monroe Street, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60661. You may send written comments about our performance in helping to meet community credit needs to CRA Officer, First Bank Chicago, 1835 First Street, Highland Park, IL 60035 and Secretary. You may also submit comments electronically through the Department's Web site at https://idfpr.illinois.gov/admin/cra.html. Your letter, together with any response by us, will be considered by the Secretary in evaluating our ILCRA performance and may be made public.

You may ask to look at any comments received by the Secretary. You may also request from the Secretary an announcement of our applications covered by the ILCRA filed with the Secretary.

We are an affiliate of First Bank Chicago Corp., a bank holding company. You may request from the Officer in Charge of Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 230 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60604 an announcement of applications covered by the ILCRA filed by bank holding companies.