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Membership Eligibility

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Membership Eligibility

You are more than a Member, you are part Owner!

Gale Credit Union is a not-for-profit organization that exists to serve our Members - who are the owners of the credit union. Like other financial institutions, Gale Credit Union accepts deposits, makes loans and provides a wide array of financial services to meet the needs of our Members.  Since our Members are our owners, we make decisions to serve you and we give back to our Members in the form of much lower loan rates, higher dividends on deposit accounts, and much lower and fewer fees.  Once a Member, always a Member.  We capitalize the "M" in Members because you are that important to us.

Membership is open to all who qualify under the following:

County where you Live or Work

Counties

  • Those who live or work in Illinois Counties including:
    • Knox County
    • Warren County
    • Peoria County
    • Tazewell County
    • Woodford County
    • Henderson County
    • Mercer County
    • Henry County
    • Stark County
  • Just open and maintain a Membership Share Savings Account with a minimum of $5.00 at all times

Business where you work or retired:

  • Employees or retirees of our previous Member Business Groups
  • Just open and maintain a Membership Share Savings Account with a minimum of $5.00 at all times

Family who are Members:

  • Those who have immediate family who are existing Members, and
  • Just open and maintain a Membership Share Savings Account with a minimum of $5.00 at all times

Organizations, Associations, Trusts, & Businesses (Entity):

  • Those where the primary owners, officers, trustees, beneficiaries, etc qualify for individual membership as stated above, and
  • the entity opens and maintains a Membership Share Savings Account with a minimum of $5.00 at all times

Over the years, the Gale Credit Union Member Business Groups have continued to grow as other area credit unions merged into Gale Credit Union.  Today, we still honor those Member business groups as vital Members of our credit union.  

If you would like to become a Member of Gale Credit Union and you live or work in one of these counties, stop in today to join Gale Credit Union.