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Mid-Wisconsin Financial Services likes to stay in the middle of all things financial in the Badger State. The institution is the holding company for Mid-Wisconsin Bank, which offers traditional time deposit and lending services from some 15 branches in central and northern Wisconsin. The bank also provides wealth management services including administration of pension and profit sharing plans, personal trusts, and estates, as well as securities and annuities brokerage. Commercial and residential mortgages each account for about a third of the company's loan portfolio; other offerings include business, construction, and agricultural loans. Mid-Wisconsin Bank was incorporated in 1890.

Monarch Community Bancorp emerged from its chrysalis in 2002 when it was organized to be the holding company for Monarch Community Bank (formerly Branch County Federal Savings and Loan Association). The bank operates more than five branches in southern Michigan's Branch, Calhoun, and Hillsdale counties. Its lending activities mainly consist of one- to four-family residential mortgages (about half of its loan portfolio), commercial mortgages, and home equity loans. To fund its lending, the bank offers such deposit products as checking, savings, and money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. It provides insurance, mutual funds, annuities, and financial planning services through an agreement with Prudential Financial.

MutualFirst Financial is the holding company for MutualFirst Bank, which has more than 30 financial centers and trust offices in northern Indiana and a loan production office in southern Michigan. The bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. More than 40% of the company's loan portfolio is devoted to residential mortgages. Consumer loans, including auto, boat, RV home equity, and home improvement loans, account for about 25%. Business loans also make up about a quarter of the MutualFirst's loan portfolio.

Northern Star Financial is the holding company for Northern Star Bank, which has two offices in Mankato and St. Cloud, Minnesota. Serving local consumers and small and midsized businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Real estate loans, including single-family residential, multifamily residential, commercial mortgage, construction, and land development loans, account for most of the company's portfolio. To a lesser extent, the bank makes business, consumer, municipal, and farm loans.

Northern States Financial is the holding company for NorStates Bank, which serves individuals and businesses in northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin through around 10 branches. It provides retail services like savings, checking, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The company uses deposits to originate commercial mortgages (accounting for about half of its portfolio) as well as residential mortgages, commercial loans, construction loans, and consumer loans. NorStates Bank was founded in 2005 when Northern States merged its Bank of Waukegan and First State Bank of Round Lake (founded in 1949 and acquired in 2004) subsidiaries.

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