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First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. to Participate in Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Regional Bank Conference
| Source: First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
ITASCA, IL--(Marketwire - March 2, 2009) - First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. ("First Midwest")
(NASDAQ : FMBI ) today announced that it will be participating in the KBW
2009 Regional Bank Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on March
4th and 5th, 2009. Michael L. Scudder, First Midwest's President and Chief
Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the conference on Thursday,
March 5th at 8:45 A.M. (ET). Interested individuals may listen to the live
webcast and view a copy of the slides by accessing
http://kbw.com/news/conference_regional2009_Webcast.html. For those unable
to attend the live broadcast, a replay of the webcast will be available
approximately 4 hours after the live presentation for 7 days.
First Midwest is the premier relationship-based banking franchise in the
growing Chicagoland banking market. As one of the Chicago metropolitan
area's largest independent bank holding companies, First Midwest provides
the full range of both business and retail banking and trust and investment
management services through some 100 offices located in 62 communities,
primarily in metropolitan Chicago. First Midwest was recently recognized
by the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workforce
Flexibility in the greater Chicago Area.