With over $8 billion in assets, First Midwest is suburban Chicago’s largest independent (sixth largest overall) banking company. We provide the full range of both business and retail banking and trust and investment management services through 103 offices located in 63 communities across suburban Chicagoland, Northwest Indiana, the Quad Cities and Central Illinois. As community bankers we offer considerable financial strength with the knowledge, experience and commitment to meet the financial needs of small to middle market business. Our own business is organized around local business centers where decisions are made by the bankers you know and who know your business.

First Midwest bankers are trained to think generally about how value can be created in business and then apply that knowledge to your company's specific operations. We don't try to learn your business in a day or a week. But we will learn enough to ask questions that may not have occurred to you in awhile, if at all. One way or another we will get you thinking strategically about the long-term financial success of your business.

You can expect us to ask for all of your business because we are serious about meeting all of your basic financial needs. Our bank products and services are designed to address most of these needs efficiently. In more specialized areas, such as leasing, insurance, securities investing and bond underwriting, we utilize the expertise of well-regarded providers as strategic partners to serve First Midwest Bank clients in those areas. And when the opportunity is ripe, we bring in other outside experts - accountants, lawyers, inventory control specialists, even marketing gurus - to help in specific areas.

You will be treated with fair and competitive pricing. Ours may not always be the lowest price you find, but as long as we do our job, you will always come out ahead. Why? Because our bankers are charged with creating value in your business, not with making sure we get a little of what's already there. When we create value for you, we create it for ourselves. It's that simple.

Finally, First Midwest will do at least two things differently from any other business bank. We will focus on the long term rather than the short term. And we will link this effort to your own quest for personal financial independence.

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