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.

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

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.

A Chicago-based firm with offices in Mexico, the UK, France, Turkey, India, and China, providing supply chain, digital, strategy and transformation consulting services to mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. We see the big picture, identify and solve core problems, discover new opportunities and implement the game-changing strategies that will deliver sustainable results. We use our niche experience and broad knowledge to solve complex problems in all areas of your business. We become a part of our clients'​ teams - creating the strategy and providing the expertise needed to implement high-velocity, breakthrough solutions. CGN quickly delivers the game-changing strategies and solutions that give you a sustainable competitive edge. Whether it's optimizing your supply chain, streamlining your internal processes, making your operations more efficient or improving the quality of your products and services - the result is a breakthrough that transforms your business and differentiates you from your competition.

Millennia Professional Services, Ltd., is committed to providing high quality engineering and construction material testing services to both our public and private sector clients. We strive to achieve high standards of client service, staff development, ethical practice, and reliability. The exceptional quality of our services is the product of experience, efficiency, intense dedication, and a diverse set of ideas. Our clients seek us out for our reputation as a truly cohesive firm that is able to collaborate beyond our own walls and to embrace our clients, the project team and the community. Our vision is to provide quality services, be employee focused, be dedicated to community, and be environmentally responsible. Millennia Professional Services is guided by the following principles: • The Value of Teamwork and Respect • Our People • Our Client’s Trust • Ethics We are an award-winning, minority owned company that was founded in March of 2004. Quality is our primary focus, and we are devoted to excellence in our services. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Peoria Area - 850 North Main St, Morton, IL 61550. [P]: 309.321.8141; [F]: 309.321.8142 Chicago Area - 2600 Warrenville Rd, Suite 203, Downers Grove, IL 60515. [P]: 630.839.2566; [F]: 630.839.2566 Metro-East Area - 11 Executive Drive, Suite 12, Fairview Heights, IL 62208. [P]: 618.624.8610 [F]: 618.624.8611 St. Louis Area - 6439 Plymouth, W-129, St. Louis, MO 63133. [P]: 314.276.6536

Full-service business law firm, with concentration in the following areas: - labor and employment law - tax and employee benefits