Typically, the bank down the block or across the street from the Courthouse is owned and operated by the judges, commissioners, regulators, and inspectors in the Courthouse. Equipped with loads of facts, some find out life can be simple. There are phantasies and fables about this monkey business. To bribe a judge, you pass him a bag of money in an alley at midnight. It does not work.
Many new suburbs have no alleys.
I was once a spectator in a court, not in Illinois. I needed to quickly know whether the bank across the alley of the federal courthouse was tied to the nearby Chief Federal District Judge. I am a business man moving into this town. I intend to deposit one hundred thousand dollars of our company funds in a bank here. So there I nailed down Step One of our probe.