Northern States Financial Corp.

Northern States Financial Corp. operates as a bank holding company for NorState Bank. The company through its subsidiary provides traditional community banking services to individuals, businesses and local governmental units in northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin. Its full service banking business includes the customary consumer and commercial products and services such as demand, savings, and time deposits, securities sold under repurchase agreements and individual retirement accounts. The company also offers commercial, consumer and real estate lending, including installment loans, home equity loans, lines of credit and overdraft checking; safe deposit operations; trust services; and a variety of additional services tailored to the needs of individual customers, such as the sale of traveler's checks, money orders, cashier's checks and foreign currency, direct deposit, and other special services. Northern States Financial was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Waukegan, IL.