Community Bank of Lawndale / Covenant Bank

CTL-E-1355 · Business · bank · 1977-2013 (as Community Bank of Lawndale 1977-2008; Covenant Bank 2008-2013)

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

First Black-owned bank on Chicago's West Side (1977), founded by Rev. Shelvin Jerome Hall; bought in 2008 by Living Word Christian Center with investments from 3,000+ church members and renamed Covenant Bank; closed by regulators 2013.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-017; source research type(s): bank.

Sources

Chicago Citizen Newspaper Group (2011); Forest Park Review (2018)
The HistoryMakers, Finding Aid A2005_125 (primary source)
Learning from North Lawndale (2006)
Forest Park Review (2018)

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