You missed one
So, when I moved up to Chicagoland from Texas 8 years ago, I signed up for an account with First Chicago Bank. A few years back, Bank One gobbled them up. One or two years ago, JPMorganChaseManhattanAndOtherLongNamesHere bought out Bank One.
First National Bank of Chicago was acquired by NBD Corp, the latest version of National Bank of Detroit, before you moved to Chicagoland. Then in the late 1990s Bank One of Ohio bought NBD Corp. Now you've got JP Morgan Chase swallowing Bank One.
I can't wait to see who eats JP Morgan Chase in a few years.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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