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Belleville Bank & Trust Company, Belleville, IL: failed January 26, 1938

Belleville Bank & Trust Company in Belleville, Illinois, failed on January 26, 1938. It held $2.8 million in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
January 26, 1938
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$2,795,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Illinois, 1936 to 1940

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
Rardin State BankRardinAugust 30, 1939$3.1 million
First State Bank of O'FallonO'FallonAugust 28, 1939$50,000$102,000
Bank of BrusselsBrusselsApril 14, 1939$148,000
The City National Bank of HarrisburgHarrisburgApril 9, 1938$2.8 million
First State Bank of CobdenCobdenNovember 24, 1937$52,000
State Bank of MundeleinMundeleinOctober 18, 1937$522,000
Roanoke State BankRoanokeSeptember 8, 1937$265,000$280,000
The Farmers National Bank of GrayvilleGrayvilleMay 27, 1937$258,000

All bank failures in 1938 · All bank failures in Illinois · The full failed bank list

Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-24. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.