First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. to Webcast Annual Meeting of Stockholders

ITASCA, IL--(Marketwired - May 13, 2015) - First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "First Midwest") (NASDAQ: FMBI), the holding company of First Midwest Bank, today announced that it will webcast its Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at 9:00 A.M. CT at the Westin Chicago Northwest Hotel, 400 Park Boulevard, Itasca, Illinois. After conducting the business described in the Company's 2015 Proxy Statement, First Midwest's management will make a brief presentation about the Company.

Stockholders and interested investors may access the live, listen-only webcast by going to the Investor Relations section of the First Midwest website at firstmidwest.com/investorrelations. The replay of the webcast and the accompanying presentation materials will be available approximately one hour following completion of the meeting and for 7 days thereafter.

About First Midwest

First Midwest, with assets of approximately $9.5 billion, is a premier relationship-based financial institution in the Chicago banking market and one of Illinois' largest independent publicly-traded banking companies. First Midwest's principal subsidiary, First Midwest Bank, and other affiliates provide a full range of business, middle market and retail banking and wealth management services to commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, municipal, and consumer customers through over 100 locations in metropolitan Chicago, northwest Indiana, central and western Illinois, and eastern Iowa. First Midwest was recognized for the second year in a row by J.D. Power as having the "Highest Customer Satisfaction with Retail Banking in the Midwest"* according to the 2015 Retail Banking Satisfaction Study(SM). The Company website is firstmidwest.com.

* First Midwest Bank received the highest numerical score among retail banks in the Midwest region in the proprietary J.D. Power 2014 and 2015 Retail Banking Satisfaction Studies(SM). 2015 study based on 82,030 total responses measuring 20 providers in the Midwest region (IA, IL, KS, MO, MN, WI) and measures opinions of consumers with their primary banking provider. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed April 2014 - February 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.