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Centrue Financial in Ottawa, Ill., has sold $35.2 million in classified loans and other assets.
December 9 -
Centrue Financial in Ottawa, Ill., said Monday that it has agreed to sell $75 million of its common stock to the New York private-equity group Capital Z Partners.
August 12 -
Merger-related expenses took a nearly $6 million bite out of third-quarter earnings at Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., but its chief executive predicted several recently completed deals will pay off sooner than anticipated.
October 19
Centrue Financial in Ottawa, Ill., has named a new chairman, after its longtime chairman resigned for health reasons.
The $944 million-asset company named Dennis Battles chairman of the holding company and Centrue Bank, effective Thursday.
Battles has been a Centrue director since 2012. He previously was head of corporate banking at U.S. Bancorp. He was also previously chief credit officer at Mercantile Bancorp., a St. Louis company that was later acquired by a U.S. Bancorp predecessor bank.
Dennis McDonnell, 72, resigned as chairman of both the company and Centrue Bank. McDonnell had been a Centrue director since 2000 and chairman since 2002. McDonnell is also the retired chairman of McDonnell Investment Management, an asset-management firm.
