Contact Information: CONTACT: Michael L. Scudder EVP, Chief Financial Officer (630) 875-7283 www.firstmidwest.com First Midwest Bancorp One Pierce Place, Suite 1500 Itasca, Illinois 60143-9768 (630) 875-7450
First Midwest to Participate in Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Regional Bank Conference
| Source: First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
ITASCA, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 22, 2007 -- First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ : FMBI ) today
announced that it will be participating in the KBW Regional Bank Conference
to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on February 28 - March 1, 2007.
Michael L. Scudder, First Midwest's Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, and Thomas J. Schwartz, First Midwest's Group President
of Commercial Banking, are scheduled to present at the Conference on
Thursday, March 1st at 1:00 PM (ET). Interested individuals may listen to
the live webcast of the presentation and view a copy of the slides used in
the presentation by accessing
http://www.firstmidwest.com/aboutinvestor_overview.asp.
For those unable to attend the live broadcast, a replay will be available
on the aforementioned website for approximately 7 days following the
presentation.
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 102 offices located in 63 communities,
primarily in metropolitan Chicago. First Midwest was the only bank named
by Chicago magazine as one of the 25 best places to work in Chicago.