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CDs up to 3.75% at Great Lakes Credit Union
Great Lakes Credit Union has a number of competitive CDs available:
- 3-year CD: 3.25% APY
- 4-year CD: 3.50% APY
- 5-year CD: 3.75% APY
These CDs all have a $500 minimum. To get these rates, you must be a member of the “Presidents Club,” which requires having $50,000 in loans or deposits at Great Lakes. You’ll have to ask if whether a $50,000 CD would meet that requirement. If you are over 55 or have $15,000 in loans/deposits, the rates are available, but at a 15 basis point drop. If none of those requirements are met, the rates go down a full half-percent.
Maybe the best deal is one I can’t verify on their webpage: A anonymous reader told wrote in our banking deals commenting thread that Great Lakes CU is offering a 3.25% APY on a 7-month IRA CD. According to the commenter, the CD has a $500 minimum and the deal will end on April 15th. I can’t find this deal listed on their webpage, but if if sounds interesting to you, I suggest calling your nearest branch. [Update 4/7: I have now verified this deal with someone at Great Lakes Credit Union.]
Great Lakes Credit Union is a relatively open credit union — it’s open to anyone who lives or works in Lake County or McHenry County in Illinois or Kenosha County in Wisconsin, as well as retired military and reservists. Great Lakes CU has 9 branches, all in Illinois — one each in Antioch, Gurnee, Libertyville, North Chicago, Round Lake Beach, Spring Grove, Waukegan, and Zion, as well as a Chicago Federal Reserve Bank Branch that is limited to employees only.
4-month, 4.00% at Great Lakes CU
[This deal is no longer available.]
Great Lakes Credit Union has what’s a pretty competitive short-term CD: a 4-month CD yielding 4.00% APY. The CD has no minimum and no maximum deposit, although you can only open one of these CDs per Social Security Number.
Great Lakes Credit Union is a relatively open credit union — it’s open to anyone who lives or works in Lake County or McHenry County in Illinois or Kenosha County in Wisconsin, as well as retired military and reservists. Great Lakes CU has 10 branches — one each in Antioch, Gurnee, Libertyville, North Chicago, Round Lake Beach, Spring Grove, Waukegan, and Zion, as well as a Chicago Federal Reserve Bank Branch and Railroad Retirement Board Branch that are limited to employees only.
(Thanks to the reader who e-mailed us this deal.)
4.00% 1-year CD at Great Lakes Credit Union
Great Lakes Credit Union is opening a new branch in Spring Grove, and they have a Grand Opening Special CD: a 1-year CD that returns 4.00% APY. The CD has both a maximum and minimum of $10,000, or you can open a 1-year CD with a max/min of $5000 and earn 3.50% APY. Only one CD can be opened per unique social security number. The rate seems to be available today through July 11th.
Great Lakes Credit Union is a relatively open credit union — it’s open to anyone who lives or works in Lake County or McHenry County in Illinois or Kenosha County in Wisconsin, as well as retired military and reservists. This CD is only available at the new Spring Grove branch — 7777 Winn Road at Route 12.
