for the record

Northwestern Financial Review, Jan 1-Jan 14, 2009

FEDERAL RESERVE WEEKLY FILINGS

Dec. 6: BHC3 Holding Company, Rapid City, S.D., authorized to become a bank holding company and to acquire Black Hills Community Bank. N.A., Rapid City.

Peoples Ban:orp. Inc., Prairie du Chien, Wis., authorized to acquire Security State Bank, Guttenberg, Iowa.

City State Bank. Ogden, Iowa, authorized to merge with Ames Community Bank, Ames, and Community Bank of Boone, Iowa and thereby establish branches.

Nov. 29: Banco Popular North America. New York, N. Y., authorized to establish a branch in Chicago.

Freeport Bancshares, Inc., Freeport, Ill., filed to acquire Community Redevelopment, LLC, Freeport, and thereby to engage in extending credit and servicing loans.

Midland States Bancorp, Inc., Effingham, Ill., filed to acquire through merger, Waterloo Bancshares, Inc., Waterloo, Ill., and thereby acquire Commercial State Bank of Waterloo. Also Midland States Bank. Effingham, filed to merge with Commercial State Bank of Waterloo and to retain the acquired facilities as branches.

182 Bancshares, Inc., Mankato, Minn., filed to become a bank holding company by acquiring Bank 182, Mankato, a de novo bank.

Lincoln Holding Company, Lincoln, Mont., filed to become a bank holding company by acquiring First Bank of Lincoln.

Kirk Sandquist, Deer Lodge, Mont., and Robert Uribe IRA, Deer Lodge, filed to acquire Sandquist Corp., Deer Lodge, and thereby acquire control of Peoples Bank of Deer Lodge.