First Bank & Trust Hosts Spring Celebration June 2 at Eco-Friendly Branch

First Bank & Trust presents a Spring Celebration event on Saturday, June 2nd from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at its newest branch office at 4007 Dempster Street in Skokie. Guests are invited to create biodegradable flower pots with the Talking Farm, a Skokie/Evanston-based non-profit, and take home a complimentary plant. First Bank & Trust staff will give informal tours of the environmentally-friendly building features, and complimentary refreshments will be provided. Guests who open a new Charter Member or Junior Banker account during the Spring Celebration will also receive a complimentary evergreen seedling from the Arbor Day Foundation.

First Bank & Trust Skokie/Evanston installed a “green” roof system on May 1st. A total of 60 pods, each six-inch deep and planted with a combination of tall flowering native perennials and grasses, were hoisted to the rooftop of the building with cranes. The green roof covers all flat roofed areas of the building. The roof plantings beautify the building and provide a host of environmental benefits, including providing additional building insulation, extending the life span of the roofing components to 50 years or more, diminishing the "heat island effect," absorbing rainwater, limiting water runoff, and filtering contaminants, and producing oxygen.

First Bank & Trust's Spring Celebration is free and open to all community residents. For more information call 847-763-1626 or visit .

FIRST BANK & TRUST is a locally owned and managed community bank founded in 1995 by Bob

Yohanan, Howard Kain and Jay Lytle, with a mission to put community first, and provide personalized

banking and investment services to individuals, owner-managed businesses and the not-for-profit

community. Now in its 16th year, First Bank & Trust has grown from a staff of 12 to a staff of over 100, with eight locations, and an ninth on the way: Evanston (820 Church Street, 2925 Central Street, 741 Main Street and 824 Emerson), Itasca (1250 Arlington Heights Road), Naperville (55 Shuman Boulevard, opening June 2012) Skokie (8047 Skokie Boulevard and 4007 Dempster) and Winnetka (100 Green Bay Road). For more information about First Bank & Trust visit www.firstbt.com.

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