205 ILCS 205/8007
The continuing savings bank or resulting depository institution shall be considered the same business and corporate entity as each merging depository institution, with all the property, rights, duties, and obligations of each merging depository institution, except as otherwise provided by the articles of incorporation of the continuing savings bank or resulting depository institution . All liabilities of each of the merging institutions shall be liabilities of the continuing savings bank or resulting depository institution ; and all of the rights, franchises, and interests of each of the merging depository institutions in and to every kind of property, real, personal, or mixed shall vest automatically in the continuing savings bank or resulting depository institution without any deed or other transfer. Any reference to a merging depository institution in any writing, whether executed or effective before or after the merger, shall be deemed a reference to the continuing savings bank or resulting depository institution if not inconsistent with the other provisions of the writing. No pending action or other judicial proceeding to which any merging depository institution is a party shall be abated or dismissed by reason of the merger, but shall be prosecuted to final judgment in the same manner as if the merger had not occurred.
205 ILCS 205/8007