Busey's chairman confident about banks' overall health

URBANA – Busey Bank Chairman Van Dukeman says he believes the current financial situation is closer to the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s and early '90s than it is to the Great Depression.

But increased public awareness of markets has made the situation seem worse, he said.

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