The largest Scandinavian bank in the U.S.A., is in Chicago; its name is the State Bank of Chicago, known all over the country by the name, Haugen and Lindgren's Bank. Since the year 1879 it has been growing continually and has now a ten million dollar surplus.

The saving's department in this bank has sixteen thousand accounts which draw interest every year. Many of these saving accounts are persons living outside Chicago most of them Norwegians who do their banking business by mail. Anyone outside Chicago wanting to do business with the State Bank of Chicago should write to 142 Washington Street, Chicago for the savings bank booklet.