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For anyone interested in financial firms in the Chicago area, the list below is helpful. It's maintained by wikipedia so the list can change at any moment but it will give you a starting point when you begin applying for internships and jobs.
Banks
- Alliant Credit Union (Chicago)
- Amalgamated Bank of Chicago (Chicago)
- BankFinancial FSB (Olympia Fields)
- BMO Harris Bank (Chicago)
- First American Bank (Elk Grove Village)
- First Midwest Bancorp (Itasca)
- Northern Trust (Chicago)
- Pacific Global Bank (Chicago)
- Urban Partnership Bank (Chicago)
Credit and payments
- Avant (Chicago)
- Braintree (Chicago)
- Discover Financial Services (Riverwoods)
- E-Loan (Rosemont)
- Feefighters (Chicago)
- Guaranteed Rate (Chicago)
- HSBC Finance, a subsidiary of HSBC (Mettawa)
- SVM (Des Plaines)
- TransUnion (Chicago)
Exchanges
- Chicago Board Options Exchange (Chicago)[16]
- Chicago Stock Exchange (Chicago)
- CME Group (Chicago)
- Nadex (Chicago)
- OneChicago (Chicago)
- Options Clearing Corporation (Chicago)
- U.S. Futures Exchange (Chicago)
Insurance
- Allstate (Northfield Township)
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Itasca)
- Bankers Life (Chicago)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (Chicago)
- CNA Financial (Chicago) (an affiliate of Loews Corporation)
- Combined Insurance (Chicago)
- Eagle Insurance (Chicago)
- Health Care Service Corporation (Chicago)
- Hub International (Chicago)
- Kemper Corporation (Chicago)
- Old Republic International (Chicago)
- Safeway Insurance Group (Westmont)
Investments
- Ariel Investments (Chicago)
- Calamos (Naperville)
- Chicago Options Associates (Chicago)
- Gardner Rich & Co (Chicago)
- Harris Associates (Chicago)
- Henry Crown and Company (Chicago)
- Incapital (Chicago)
- Lincoln International (Chicago)
- Mesirow Financial (Chicago)
- Morningstar, Inc. (Chicago)
- Nuveen Investments (Chicago)
- PTI Securities & Futures (Chicago)
- William Blair & Company (Chicago)
Private equity and hedge funds
- Chicago Growth Partners (Chicago)
- Citadel LLC (Chicago)
- CIVC Partners (Chicago)
- Frontenac Company (Chicago)
- GCM Grosvenor (Chicago)
- GETCO (Chicago)
- GTCR (Chicago)
- Guggenheim Partners (Chicago)
- Lake Capital (Chicago)
- Lightbank (Chicago)
- Madison Dearborn Partners (Chicago)
- Magnetar Capital (Evanston)
- MK Capital (Chicago)
- RCP Advisors (Chicago)
- TransMarket Group (Chicago)
- Willis Stein & Partners (Chicago)
- Wind Point Partners (Chicago)
