Binga Bank (Binga State Bank)

CTL-E-1185 · Institution · other · unspecified

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Chicago's first Black-owned bank: founded as a private bank by Jesse Binga in 1908 and chartered as Binga State Bank in 1921.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:binga-bank; source research type(s): institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Northwestern University Press — 'Binga' (Don Hayner); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City — 'Let Us Put Our Money Together' (2019)

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