...A. Highlights: Successful qtr. 1. 2. At last April-end at start of pandemic and government's massive response to it, Co. indicated WTFC [supports this, it was] going to attempt to grow through it. Today, Co. accomplished this goal. a. b. 3Q21 shows this strategy is working. c. All growth to-date has been organic. 3. 2Q21 is another all-around $1b qtr. Assets, deposits, core loans, net of PPP loans, all grew by over $1b. a. b. Growth prospects remain very good. c. Core loan growth resulted in overall increase of total loans even after PPP run-off. 4. Co. is able to achieve another $1b loan qtr. in 4Q, which WTFC believes is more than reasonable assumption given its pipelines, which by the way are 13-month high at qtr.-end. Will fully replace all PPP balances which is Co.'s intent before WTFC embarked on this strategy. a. 5. Income $109m or $1.77 per diluted common share. YTD, $367.4m or $6 per share. a. 6. Reported net interest margin (NIM) decreased 4 BP to 2.59% primarily due to excess...