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It wasn’t so many years ago that the once-largest bank in Chicago, Continental, sought to attract retail customers by calling itself the big bank with the little bank inside, using the motif of kangaroos.
After a debacle in the mid-1980s and a takeover by banking authorities and a government bailout, Continental became strictly business and invited mom and pop to take their business elsewhere.
Last year, the Continental name disappeared as the bank was sold to BankAmerica Corp. and became Bank of America Illinois. Last week, the bank signed a deal to install 172 automatic teller machines in Jewel Food and Osco Drug stores. Consumers may yet be welcomed back to the corner of Jackson and LaSalle.
