Community Financial Shares (CFIS) 8-K Consummates $24.0 Million Private Placement Offering of

Exhibit 4.4

COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SHARES, INC.

Subject to any applicable regulatory approvals, the Board of Directors of Company is authorized by vote or votes, to provide for the issuance of serial preferred stock in series and to fix and state the voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof. The Company will furnish to any shareholder upon request and without charge a full description of each class of stock and any series thereof.

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM	–	as tenants in common	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT		Custodian
TEN ENT	–	as tenants by entireties		(Cust)		(Minor)
JT TEN	–	as joint tenants with right of survivorship
		not as tenants in common		under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
				(State)
			UNIF TRF MIN ACT		Custodian (until age                                )
				(Cust)

	under Uniform Transfers
(Minor)

to Minors Act

            (State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

For value received     hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

SOCIAL SECURITY OR  TAXPAYER     IDENTIFICATION NUMBER	PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE – NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE
		SHARES

SOCIAL SECURITY OR  TAXPAYER     IDENTIFICATION NUMBER	PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE – NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE
		SHARES

of the preferred stock represented by the within Certificate and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

Attorney to

transfer the said stock on the books of the within-named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated                                        20
	Signature(s)
IMPORTANT
A NOTARY SEAL IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION SUCH AS A COMMERCIAL BANK, TRUST COMPANY, SAVINGS AND LOAN, CREDIT UNION OR BROKER WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO SEC RULE 17AD-15.	Signature(s) NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) ON THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER. THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY A COMMERCIAL BANK OR TRUST COMPANY, OR BY A NEW YORK OR MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE MEMBER OR FIRM, WHOSE SIGNATURE IS KNOWN TO THE TRANSFER OFFICE.
	Medallion Signature(s) Guarantee

THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (B) AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR BLUE SKY LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY AND ITS TRANSFER AGENT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT (PROVIDED THAT THE TRANSFEROR PROVIDES THE COMPANY WITH REASONABLE ASSURANCES (IN THE FORM OF A SELLER REPRESENTATION LETTER AND, IF APPLICABLE, A BROKER REPRESENTATION LETTER) THAT THE SECURITIES MAY BE SOLD PURSUANT TO SUCH RULE).