What Rocks in Rockford Voting 2025 As a local, independent community bank, we are honored to be nominated in FOUR categories in this year’s Rockford Register Star’s “What Rocks” Community’s Choice Awards contest! ✔️ Best Bank ✔️ Best Financial Planning Services ✔️ Best Mortgage Lending Company ✔️ Top Employer (101-500 employees) Please take a moment to click the… Read More
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Books of Interest Part 13: 2025 Summer/Fall Reading Recommendations For the past few years, we have curated a list of our employees’ favorite reads. In celebration of National Book Lovers Day (August 9), we are excited to be back again with Part Thirteen of our “Books of Interest.” If you are looking to be captivated… Read More
Scam of the Week | Keeping Your Passwords Squeaky Clean Did you know that the average person uses the same three to seven passwords to log in to over 170 online accounts? In addition to being reused, these passwords are often weak and can be easily guessed by cybercriminals. If cybercriminals guess these passwords, they… Read More
Back-to-School Supply Drive We are excited to partner with Remedies Renewing Lives again this year and host a Back-to-School Supply Drive! The drive will run from Monday, July 21 through Friday, August 8! 🎒✏️🖍️📒 Remedies Renewing Lives is the only domestic violence shelter in Winnebago and Boone counties. Each year, they provide a variety of domestic violence… Read More
Scam of the Week | A Fine Way to Get Scammed In this week’s scam, you receive a text message that appears to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The text states that you must pay a traffic fine by a certain date. If you don’t pay on time, your vehicle registration will… Read More