As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. Summer projects typically ask interns to: Support economists in their basic and applied research – inclusive of collecting data, conducting moderately complex statistical analysis, and organizing the presentation of results.