Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about BUSEY BANK!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: busey is a leading financial services institution serving Illinois, Indiana and southwest Florida . the financiers took in $9,555.60 that first day . 1868: Busey Brothers & Company Bank opens its doors on 1913: Busey State Bank becomes busey state bank . 1922: Trust powers granted to Shelby Loan & Trust Company in Shelbyville, Illinois. Pulaski Building and Loan Association opens to assist the St. Louis the bank continues without a penny of deposits being lost . 1968: On the 100th anniversary of busey first national bank, assets exceed $34 million . 1971: Busey First National Bank changes ownership . busey first national bank is controlled by someone outside the Busey family . the bank is a state chartered bank . 1987: Champaign County Bank & Trust and City Bank merge . 1993: Busey Bank celebrates its 125th anniversary . 1995: Trevett-Mattis, now known as BankIllinois, merges with Champaign National Bank, keeping the name Bank Busey Bank expands to Indianapolis, Indiana, creating a loan production office . Pulaski Financial Corp and first busey Corp stocks trade on NASDAQ under the symbols PULB and BUSE . 1999: Bus first Busey Corporation’s total assets, for the first time in its history, exceeds $1 billion . Main Street operates 19 banking centers and is the parent company of BankIllinois, First National Bank of Decatur Busey acquires First Capital Bank with four locations in Peoria and Tazewell Counties . these banks take the busey name in mid-2005 . 2005: Main Street Bank & Trust acquires Citizens first busey corporation merges with its subsidiary, Busey Bank, N.A., headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, becoming Busy Bank . 2012: The Busy family of financial services expands its offerings 2015: Herget Bank joins the Busey family of financial services . 2015: Building on storied tradition of outstanding service and community commitment . 2017: First Community of the greater Chicagoland area joins Busy. 2018: South Side Bank of Peoria joins Busey in March 2018 . 2019: TheBANK of Edwardsville joins busey on January 31, 2019 . Announced December 4, 2015; completed April 29, 2016 The Banc Ed Corp., the holding company for TheBANK of Edwardsville based in Edwardsville, Illinois. Announced August 22, 2018; completed TBD. “10K report”. Busey paid $12.4 million in dividends on the stock . busey moved the remaining $72.6 million from the TARP program to the Treasury’s SBLF . banks can use it to lift the restrictions imposed