COUNTRY Financial® provides insurance and financial services for over a million households and businesses across 19 states. We have a long history of protecting people. Formed by a group of farmers in 1925, we now have more than 3,000 employees and over 1,700 representatives to help our clients protect what matters most and plan for a secure future. We’re more than an insurance company — COUNTRY Financial clients not only trust us with insuring their homes, cars, farms, businesses, and lives, but also to help them plan for the future with investing, retirement and financial services.

Advanced Technology Services, Inc. (ATS), is a leading services provider with nearly four decades of proven experience in technology-driven industrial maintenance and MRO asset management. Through a technically skilled workforce, best-in-class processes, and Industry 4.0 technologies, we deliver improved asset health and productivity to many leading process and discrete manufacturers. ATS is headquartered in Illinois with regional offices located throughout the U.S., Mexico, and U.K. Learn more about how we make factories run better at www.advancedtech.com. For product & services inquiries contact, 855-834-7604 or [email protected].

Farnsworth Group is a leading employee-owned full-service design firm, with over 500 professionals across the United States. Founded in the 1890s by a local land surveyor, Farnsworth Group's earlier employees believed the client is always their priority, a value that continues to drive the firm's work today. Farnsworth Group is committed to providing exceptional design solutions to their clients, and with a team of over 500 engineers, architects, surveyors, commissioning authorities, technicians, and support personnel, the firm has become one of the top design firms in the nation, as recognized by Architectural Record and Engineering News-Record magazine. The firm is dedicated to creating lasting relationships with its clients, with 90% of its business coming from repeat clients. Farnsworth Group's focus on people, passion, and performance is a testament to its commitment to delivering exceptional results to its clients. Farnsworth Group provides a wide range of services that includes architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, plumbing engineering, structural engineering, civil engineering, LEED consulting, commissioning, asset management, land surveying, water system engineering, wastewater system engineering, oil and gas engineering, and energy & utilities. This diverse portfolio of services allows Farnsworth Group to deliver holistic and comprehensive solutions to their clients, meeting their unique needs and goals. Farnsworth Group's mission is to champion their clients' successes, advance their communities, and embrace the challenges of a changing world. With a focus on people, passion, and performance, the firm has become one of the top design firms in the nation, providing exceptional design solutions for clients across the United States.

Heyl Royster is a regional law firm with more than 100 lawyers and seven offices located in Illinois (Peoria, Champaign, Chicago, Edwardsville, Rockford, and Springfield and Missouri (St. Louis). The firm provides legal services for businesses and corporations, professionals, healthcare organizations, governmental entities, universities, insurance carriers, and other major institutions. Our lawyers have successfully defended clients in state, federal and appellate courts, and before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commissions throughout Illinois. We have defended clients in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Mississippi as well. Our attorneys also counsel clients on commercial transactions and all aspects of business life. Through our lawyers' participation in bar and industry activities, we identify and help develop trends in the law that we believe will be of benefit to our clients.

Meyer Capel is one of the largest and most diversified law firms in Champaign County, offering clients 18 different areas of practice to meet their legal needs in 2 different locations. Because of the diverse practice areas of our deeply committed attorneys, we have grown to become nationally recognized, as well.

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources is an independent actuarial and management consulting firm that’s large enough to provide a wealth of expertise and world-class solutions— yet small enough to be flexible, timely and cost-effective. Owned by our professional staff, Pinnacle ranks among the largest independent property/casualty actuarial firms in North America. Our reputation for uncompromising professionalism, expertise and outstanding service is embodied in our brand Commitment Beyond Numbers. Pinnacle’s managing principal is Roosevelt C. Mosley Jr., FCAS, MAAA, CSPA, and Pinnacle’s principals include: Joseph A. Herbers, ACAS, MAAA, CERA. Aaron N. Hillebrandt, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU, CLF, FFSI, FLMI, LPCS, AINS Arthur R. Randolph II, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU, ARM, ARe Derek W. Freihaut, FCAS, MAAA Robert J. Walling III, FCAS, MAAA, CERA Timothy C. Mosler, FCAS, MAAA Pinnacle's home office is in Bloomington, Illinois. Additional Pinnacle office locations include: Atlanta, Georgia Chicago, Illinois San Francisco, California

Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. (APTech) is a full-service pavement engineering consulting firm that provides effective solutions for the design, evaluation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of roadway and airport pavements. Since its founding in 1994, APTech has worked with clients at the State, Federal, and local level in the United States and abroad, and we are a recognized leader in our industry. APTech helps its clients identify cost-effective strategies that reduce the overall life cycle cost of preserving the pavement network while incorporating the latest pavement-related designs and technologies into organizational practice.

Striegel Knobloch & Co is an accounting company based out of 115 W Jefferson St # 200, Bloomington, Illinois, United States.

Founded in 1945, Quinn Johnston provides comprehensive legal services to its clients ranging from private individuals to large business entities. With more than twenty-five lawyers in offices in Peoria and Springfield, the firm litigates cases in most all counties within Illinois and serves business clientele throughout the downstate Illinois area. The firm’s practice broadly covers the areas of business, civil litigation and healthcare. Quinn Johnston has received outside recognition of its commitment to excellence in service. In 2013, Fortune Magazine listed the firm as one of the Top Ranked Law Firms, and in 2014, Corporate Counsel Magazine placed the firm on its list of Top Ranked Law Firms in the United States. Martindale has awarded the firm with an AV rating (Martindale’s highest ranking for both ability and legal ethics) for years, and thirteen of the partners within the firm have their own individual AV ratings. The firm annually earns recognition for several of its attorneys from the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network and Chicago Magazine’s SuperLawyers.

MILLER, HALL & TRIGGS LLC is a law practice company based out of 416 MAIN STREET SUITE 1125, PEORIA, Illinois, United States.

Founded in 1984, Hagerman & Company provides software and professional services for companies in the AEC, Manufacturing and related industries. We form long term partnerships with our clients based on trust, backed by decades of industry experience and expertise. Our top priority is our customers’ success. To achieve this, we offer the best software in the industry with professional services delivered by outstanding industry consultants, instructors and support technicians. What We Do Hagerman has partnered with thousands of companies in the manufacturing, AEC and related industries to bring projects to market. Our experienced staff will guide you to select, implement, and use software used to design, manufacture, construct, engineer, simulate, analyze and manage data. As a national partner with more than 30 years of experience, Hagerman & Company built our success not only on the quality of our software, services, and solutions, but also the relationships we’ve built with each and every client. Trust us to make your projects more efficient, productive, and most of all, profitable. With family at the heart of our business, our purpose is to provide for our employees and their families and to honor the friends who have supported our vision.