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03/04/2009

Continental-Illinois

Jeff, Paul, Robert and I are looking forward to telling you all about the rise, fall, rescue and implications of Continental-Illinois Bank, a longtime Chicago institution, which was housed in what is now the Bank of America building on LaSalle and Jackson, next to the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Fed. Until this year, Continental-Illinois was the largest bank bailout in US history.

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Here's some background for our presentation:
WSJ Op-Ed FDIC Chairman William Isaac oversaw Continental-Illinois  (2/24/09)

Q&A with Isaac on the Continental-Illinois rescue in 1984 (6/4/84)

Wharton Business School Report on Continental Illinois

"Here Comes Continental" article from Dun's Review (December 1978)

FDIC: Continental-Illinois and "Too Big to Fail"

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