{"id":681153,"date":"2010-03-03T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:09:08","slug":"giannoulias-at-sun-times-illinois-senate-nominee-admits-mistakes-family-bank-likely-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681153","title":{"rendered":"Giannoulias at Sun-Times: Illinois Senate nominee admits mistakes, family bank likely to fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias appeared before the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board on Wednesday morning to talk about his role as a loan officer in the troubled family-owned Broadway Bank. He took blame for making too many real estate loans and said the bank may fail. GOP rival Rep. Mark Steven Kirk is making the bank a central issue in the campaign. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/politics\/2081440,alexi-giannoulias-loan-bank-meeting-030310.article\">The story by Chicago Sun-Times political writer Abdon Pallasch is here.<\/a> Giannoulias is also meeting with the Chicago Tribune editorial board this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias appeared before the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board on Wednesday morning to talk about his role as a loan officer in the troubled family-owned Broadway Bank. He took blame for making too many real estate loans and said the bank may fail. GOP rival Rep. Mark Steven Kirk is making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rcl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782724,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681153\/revisions\/782724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}