Federal Reserve Release, H2, Actions of the Board, its Staff, and the Federal Reserve Banks; Applications and Reports Received

District: 7
Federal Reserve Bank of: Chicago

Filings received during the week ending September 20, 2014

Filer

Filing Type

Filing Proposal

End of Comment Period

BEN FRANKLIN FINANCIAL MHC

* MHC Conversion

Ben Franklin Financial, MHC, Arlington Heights, Illinois, to convert to stock form and merge with and into Ben Franklin Financial, Inc., Arlington Heights, Illinois. In connection with this application, Ben Franklin Financial, Inc. will be merged into a de novo corporation named Ben Franklin Financial, Inc., a Maryland Corporation, which has applied to become a savings and loan holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois, Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Newspaper:	Not available
Federal Register:	10/17/2014

OTTAWA SAVINGS BANCORP, MHC

* SLHC Acquisition

Ottawa Savings Bancorp MHC, and Ottawa Savings Bancorp, Inc., both of Ottawa, Illinois, will merge Twin Oaks Savings Bank a mutual savings bank in Marseilles, Illinois, with and into Ottawa Savings Bank FSB, Ottawa, Illinois, with Ottawa Savings Bank as the surviving institution.

Newspaper:	Not available
Federal Register:	09/26/2014

WESTERN ILLINOIS BANCSHARES, INC.

CIC

Notice by Augustin S. Hart, Ill, Rebecca S. Hart and Broadwater Partners LP, all of Oquawka, Illinois; Douglas S. Hart of Powell, Wyoming; the general partner of Broadwaters Partnership LP, Broadwaters, Inc. of Cody, Wyoming ("GP"); the principal shareholder and President of GP, Augustin S. Hart Ill and three other principal shareholders of GP, Kathryn Stuart Lansing, Lake Forest, Illinois; Douglas S. Hart, Powell, Wyoming; and Harriet Heather Hart, Bozeman, Montana, to retain more than 10 percent of Western Illinois Bancshares, Inc., Monmouth, Illinois.

Newspaper:	08/15/2014
Federal Register:	Not available

Availability of CRA Public Evaluations

The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and is implemented by Regulation BB (12 CFR 228). The regulation was revised in May 1995.

The CRA requires that each depository institution's record in helping meet the credit needs of its entire community be evaluated periodically. That record is taken into account in considering an institution's application for deposit facilities.

A copy of an institution's CRA evaluation may be obtained directly from the institution or Reserve Bank.

Federal bank regulators use the following performance levels to rate an institution's performance under CRA:

O = Outstanding
S = Satisfactory
NI = Needs to improve
SN = Substantial noncompliance

The following state member banks have been examined and their CRA public evaluations are now available.

Institution / Location	RSSD ID	Exam Date	CRA Public Date	CRA Rating	Exam Method
LA SALLE ST BK, LA SALLE, ILLINOIS	956134	05/19/2014	09/16/2014	S	Small Bank

CRA Examinations scheduled for Quarter of

Institution	Location
NONE

* Subject to the provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act

District: 7 Federal Reserve Bank of: Chicago

Filings received during the week ending September 20, 2014

Availability of CRA Public Evaluations

CRA Examinations scheduled for Quarter of

District: 7
Federal Reserve Bank of: Chicago