Chasse Rehwinkel
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Chasse Rehwinkel
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Chicagoan, Public Finance Nerd, CFO of Devon Bank, I teach banking @harrissocial.bsky.social, Frm. Chicago City Comptroller, Frm. Director of Banking for Illinois - posts are my own!
Hey all! As of you know my dad passed unexpectedly this spring. In his honor we have created the Gary E. Rehwinkel Foundation, which will give college scholarships to students from my dad’s high school.

Anything you can donate I’d appreciate greatly. ❤️

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June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Spending the morning chatting with community banks across the state on policy topics!
April 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Great day of talking about banking in Springfield!
April 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Been a while but heading to Springfield for bankers meetings!
April 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy to rejoin the Illinois Bank On Commission, this time as a community bank representative! Looking forward to further work on improving the financial status of Illinoisans across the state!
April 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
First day!
January 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Last Day
December 31, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Looooong days at work, but made it home for bday cake. Here’s to one more trip around the sun 🥃
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Check this out! Something I just picked up, it’s a Wanted Poster for a bank in Gorham, IL, from the 1930s.

I think it’s cool that the reward was put up by the Illinois Bankers Association and that apparently they dropped the price at some point from $1,000 to $500. 😂
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Cool thing I picked up recently to put in the City Comptroller’s office. Picture of the Comptroller’s office at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933.
November 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This push was not limited to college endowments. A concerted push by advocates led to over 200 US companies cutting all ties with South Africa between 1985 to 1990, resulting in a loss of $1 billion in direct investment.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
The movement to protest the abhorrent practices of Apartheid South Africa began to gain mass appeal in the form of disinvestment--with the idea that if one pressures the South African government financially, eventually policies will have to change.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Sullivan was a board member of General Motors, which in the 1970s was the largest employer of Black South Africans at the time. in 1977, Sullivan created a series of principals to apply economic pressure on South Africa called the Sullivan Principals.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
In the US, anti-apartheid activism can be traced most clearly to an African American Baptist preacher from Philadelphia named Leon Sullivan.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This is just a brief, BRIEF, overview. I encourage everyone to research this history.

Apartheid was complete domination by the Afrikaner ruling minority. Disgusting laws, such as the Population Registration Act and Group Areas Act totally disenfranchised black South Africans.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This segregation in South Africa, holding down the people of color in the colony, was partially dictated by law and partially set by custom.

But following SA's independence in 1931 and the crucial election of 1948, the country's white governing minority made Apartheid law.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
In 1652 the Dutch United East India Company (I'll discuss that company one day) established the Dutch Cape Colony around the Cape of Good Hope. Originally just a trading post, this new colony brought Dutch settlers from Europe to South Africa.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
One of the great insidious evils of the 20th century, hopefully the history of Apartheid isn't unknown to most folks. But just in case, Afrikaans for "apart-ness" or "apart-hood" apartheid was the systematic, government policy of South Africa around complete racial segregation.
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
For my first econ history nerd post I wanted to share my absolute favorite poster that I own!

its silkscreen by Diane Haft in 1985, done as part of a campaign to stop banking institutions that were investing in Apartheid South Africa. So let's talk about the history of South African divestment! 🤓🧵
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Hello Bluesky people! Jumping on here to test out. I'm a fiscal nerd that will be posting mostly fiscal nerd history things (I promise they are fun). Anyway looking forward to the new place and figured this photo was festive for the occasion!
November 13, 2024 at 11:22 PM