State Bank of Chicago

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State Bank of Chicago was an American banking firm which conducted business under a state of Illinois charter issued on February 10, 1891. State Bank of Chicago operated from offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building located at the southeast corner of La Salle and Washington streets in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite book| last=Currey| first=J. Seymour| year=1912| title=Chicago, its history and its builders, A century of marvelous growth| url=https://archive.org/details/chicagohistory03curr| quote=commerce.| page=[https://archive.org/details/chicagohistory03curr/page/360 360]-361| publisher=S.J. Clark Publishing Company| location=Chicago| accessdate=August 26, 2018}} State Bank of Chicago was a successor to the private banking partnership of Haugan & Lindgren, Bankers which had been in operation since 1879. Haugan & Lindgren had been housed at No. 57 and No. 59 La Salle Street, Chicago.{{cite book| last=Henschen| first=Henry S.| year=1905| title=A History of the State Bank of Chicago From 1879 to 1904| url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstateba00hens| publisher=The Lakeside Press| location=Chicago| page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofstateba00hens/page/n23 14]}}) That bank was founded by Norwegian born Helge Alexander Haugan and his partner John R. Lindgren. It had initially focused on the large population of Scandinavian residents within the Chicago area.{{cite book| last=Strand| first=A. E. (Algot E.), comp. and ed.| year=1905| title=A History of the Norwegians of Illinois| url=https://archive.org/details/historyofnorwegi00stra| quote=state bank.| publisher=J. Anderson Publishing Co.| location=Chicago| page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofnorwegi00stra/page/248 248]-249}}

In 1929, Walter W. Head took over as president of State Bank of Chicago and guided through a merger with Foreman National Bank. All of the State Bank's assets were transferred to the Foreman National. The merger with Foreman National eventually made the remaining institution, the Foreman-State Bank, one of the three largest banks in Chicago. During June 1931, the Foreman-State Bank was acquired by the First National Bank of Chicago.{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746099,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122143732/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746099,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 22, 2010| title=Exit Missouri Life| magazine=Time| date=September 18, 1933|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal| last=Roth| first=Walter| date=Fall 2003| publisher=Chicago Jewish Historical Society| volume=27| number=3| title=Demise of the Foreman-State Bank: Was it "Shylock In Reverse"?| url=http://chicagojewishhistory.org/pdf/2003/CJH.3.2003.pdf| pages=6–10}}