100 Years of COUNTRY Financial: Making a Home in the Twin Cities with Bill Kemp

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Join Museum Librarian Bill Kemp for a program celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of COUNTRY Financial. This free public program will be held in-person in the Museum's second floor courtroom and live-streamed via youtube.com/mchistorymuseum on Tuesday, September 16 at 6:30 p.m.

COUNTRY Financial is partnering with the Museum to celebrate the Bloomington-based insurer's 100th anniversary in 2025. Kemp's program will chronicle the details of the company’s decisions and actions to move its headquarters from Chicago, IL, to downstate Illinois in 1960-61. Why did the Farm Bureau make the move? Why was Bloomington selected over its many downstate competitors? How did the new relocation and influx of new employees impact the Twin Cities? The answer to these and other questions will be addressed in this profusely illustrated program.

This program is sponsored by COUNTRY Financial. For more information about this program, please contact the Education Department by clicking here or calling 309-827-0428.

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