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Article: Chicago very much alive as financial hub
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 1987
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Richard L. Thomas is president and a director of First Chicago Corp.
and its principal subsidiary, First National Bank of Chicago. He
joined First Chicago in 1958, and was named the first general manager
of First Chicago Corp. when it was formed in 1969. He is a member of
the Executive Committee and a past president of the Economic Club in
Chicago.
Like Mark Twain, Chicago can say that reports of its death as an
international financial center have been greatly exaggerated.
Chicago has gained a worldwide reputation as an innovator in
financial services and as a good place to do business. One of its
sources of strength as a money center is that it is strategically
located in the Midwest - ...