In 2000, the Leadership Retreat Program was expanded to include the Midwest and West Coast Leadership Retreats.

The first Midwest Leadership Retreat was held at Northwestern University with the West Coast Leadership Retreat hosted by Pomona College.

* Other Sikeston businesses include AgMart Sales, Clayton Fabrication and Metal Works, Collins Music, Construction Trailer Specialists, Days Inn, DeWitt Company, Duckett Truck Center, Ferguson Medical Group, First Midwest Bank, Focus Bank, Garage Door Company of Sikeston, J. C. Penney, J-J-N Enterprises, Lowe's, Meyers Supply Company, Slusher Farm and Home Center, Mitchell Insurance, NewWave Communications, Pyramid Roofing Company, Retco Trailer Manufacturing, Steward Steel, The UPS Store, and Walgreens with multiple locations for Dollar General, Raymond James Financial, State Farm Insurance, and U. S. Bancorp.

Hefner created the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in honor of her father, and has helped to raise $ 30 million to build the CORE Center in Chicago, the first outpatient facility in the Midwest for people with AIDS.

First Air Force assumed responsibility for the ADC 21st, 33d, 34th, 35th, and 36th Air Divisions, primarily located in the northeast and upper Midwest regions of the United States.

First Bank System was formed in 1929 as the First Bank Stock Corporation by several banks in the Upper Midwest, most notably the First National Bank of Minneapolis and the First National Bank of St. Paul, both of which had been established in 1864.

* September 1, 2007 – Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

Over 150 students participate in the school ’ s band program which has won numerous regional and national awards, including First Place in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Midwest Festival of Music.

The largest banks headquartered in Chicago are: Northern Trust, BMO Harris Bank, Corus Bank, Wintrust Financial, and First Midwest Bank.

* Alan K. Ruvelson (’ 36 BBA ) – Founder of America ’ s first venture capital firm ; President, First Midwest Capital Corporation

First traveling through the Ozarks, then around the Southeast and Midwest of the U. S., and then onto Mexico, he would finally wind up in Chicago, and enroll to study portrait art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

First Midwest Bank, the main banking subsidiary of First Midwest Bancorp, Inc., a publicly-held company, began in Joliet, Illinois.

First Midwest has its headquarters located in Itasca, just west of O ' Hare Airport.

On October 23, 2009, First Midwest Bank acquired certain deposits and loans of Westmont-based First DuPage Bank in a transaction facilitated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

First Midwest Bank agreed to assume all of the deposits-$ 230 million, and agreed to purchase approximately $ 260 million in assets at a discount of $ 32 million.

First Midwest Bank entered into a loss-share transaction with the FDIC providing First Midwest Bank with protection from the FDIC for loan losses.

JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

The crop failures of the “ Year without a Summer ” may have helped shape the settling of the " American Heartland ", as many thousands of people ( particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event ) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest ( then the Northwest Territory ) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.

The event attracts thousands to Sycamore from locations throughout northern Illinois, the Midwest, and the broader United States.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

The event draws thousands of people from throughout the Upper Peninsula and Midwest.

The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.

The May 2009 Southern Midwest Derecho was an extreme progressive derecho and mesoscale convective vortex event that struck Southeastern Kansas, Southern Missouri, and Southwestern Illinois on May 8, 2009.

As a private, women-only and clothing-optional camping event, the Michigan festival was founded in 1976 by 19-year-old Lisa Vogel, who, with sister Kristie Vogel and friend Mary Kindig, planned an event along the lines of the recent Boston Women ’ s Music Festival and the Midwest Women ’ s Festival.

Flock continued to race under other sanctioning bodies, including the Midwest Association for Race Cars ( MARC ), competing in the 100-mile event on the dirt at Lakewood Speedway, Georgia, in October 1961, where he finished second.

Kansas City boasts the most successful Bikers for Babies ® event in the country and largest charity ride in the Midwest.

* TagCon Midwest, USA-Annual event hosted by clubs from the midwest with the backing of Steradian Tech.

The pair won the Midwest tag team championship on the undercard of the June 30, 1961 Comiskey Park event starring Pat O ' Connor and Buddy Rogers that set the all-time record gate in the United States to that point.

CM Punk in a match against Danny Dominion at an National Wrestling Alliance | NWA Midwest event on November 23, 2002 in Grayslake, Illinois.

Known as the largest film event in the Upper Midwest, the festival invites numerous films from all corners of the globe, and attracts a large number of independent filmmakers to the Twin Cities over the course of its run.

This was a different storm from the historic event that struck the Midwest and southern Canada around December 23 from another cyclone which preceded this storm.

Turner continued to race under other sanctioning bodies, including the Midwest Association for Race Cars ( MARC ), even promoting his own 100-mile event on the dirt at Lakewood Speedway, Georgia, in October 1961.

The NWA Midwest Women's Championship and IWA Mid-South Women's Championship were merged early in 2005, and Haze won the Championship from Ariel in a six-pack challenge at the Givin Em Da Bizness event on February 12, 2005.

Paavo Nurmi Marathon, held annually since 1969, is the oldest marathon in Wisconsin and the second-oldest in the American Midwest.

Greens held mayorships in California and New York, and positions on city, neighborhood, or common councils in the West, South, Midwest, and Northeast.

The competition has been held at various sites in the South, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.

Two other books about Huntington include History of Huntington County, IN by Frank Sumner Bash in 1914 ( describing its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests ) and Huntington County, IN: Histories and Families by Turner Publishing Company in 1993 as a result of the Huntington County Historical Society officers and board of directors meeting in the summer of 1992 to discuss the family history of Huntington, the glue that has held together the city and county of Huntington in the heartland of the Midwest for more than 175 years.

Cloud Railway ( a railroad which existed primarily on paper, but which held very extensive land grants throughout the Midwest and Pacific Northwest ) to the Great Northern Railway.

From then on, ITASA held two conferences annually on the East Coast and the Midwest, until 1999, when the first annual West Coast Conference was held at the University of California, Berkeley, thus completing the three-region conference series which continues today.

# Regional Conferences held in the East Coast, Midwest and West Coast provide students with annual conventions promoting education, activism, leadership, culture, performance and friendship.

For example, the Dowling Catholic Paradigm held at Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, Iowa is a medium-sized tournament attended by debaters of all experience levels mostly from the Midwest, and therefore receives four bids, awarded to the debaters who reach the semifinal round of the tournament.

America ’ s first “ women ’ s music festivals ” began appearing in the early 1970s, starting with day festivals at the Sacramento State and San Diego State University campuses, the Midwest Women ’ s Festival held in Missouri, the Boston Women ’ s Music Festival, and the National Women ’ s Music Festival at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign.

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, or Midwest Trivia Contest, is held each year in Appleton, Wisconsin, broadcast over Lawrence University's radio station, WLFM.

The Society held a number of civilians hostage in a compound in the American Midwest claiming they were protecting themselves from the Skrulls.

The Society held a number of civilians hostage in a compound in the American Midwest claiming they were protecting themselves from the Skrulls.

The Society held a number of civilians hostage in a compound in the American Midwest claiming they were protecting themselves from the Skrulls.

* May 13 – 15-The Atlantic Conference is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey by American East Coast and Midwest organized crime leaders.

In the U. S., especially the Upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Mid-Atlantic states, community fish fries are slightly popular, sometimes having a religious connection when held in church basements or lots, in observation of Lent, for example.

In the 1950s, orchestras and jazz ensembles were introduced, and in 1962, the Midwest Clinic held its first official Orchestra Day.

Since 1973, the Midwest Clinic has been held at the Hilton Chicago, and in 1995, the Blackstone Hotel was used in addition to the Hilton for hosting clinic events.

Clinics are now held at all four Midwest Clinic venues.

In addition to the concerts, clinics, and exhibits held at the Midwest Clinic, many organizations hold annual meetings and / or receptions throughout the week since so many of their members are in attendance.

In 2001, the Midwest League All-Star Game was held at Fifth Third Field in Dayton.

Anderson started wrestling in 1967 in the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) as Rock Rogowski, where he held the AWA Midwest Heavyweight and the AWA Midwest Tag Team Titles.