FIRST MIDWEST BANCORP, INC.
                        1989 OMNIBUS STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN
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          The following  sections of the  First Midwest Bancorp,  Inc. 1989
          Omnibus  Stock and Incentive  Plan have  been hereby  amended, as
          follows:

          1.   Section 1.2:  Purpose
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                    The  purpose of the Plan is to advance the interests of
               the   Company,  by   encouraging  and   providing  for   the
               acquisition  of an  equity interest  in the  success  of the
               Company by key employees, by providing additional incentives
               and motivation toward  superior performance of  the Company,
               and  by enabling  the  Company  to  attract and  retain  the
               services of key employees  upon whose judgment, interest and
               special effort  the successful conduct of  its operations is
               largely dependent.

          2.   Section 2.1 (e)
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                    "Committee"  means the  Compensation  Committee of  the
               Board of  Directors or  such other committee  appointed from
               time  to time by the  Board of Directors  to administer this
               Plan.  The Committee shall consist of three or more members,
               each of whom  shall qualify as a  "disinterested person," as
               the  term is  defined  by Rule  16b-3,  and as  an  "outside
               director"  within the  meaning  of Code  Section 162(m)  and
               regulations thereunder.

          3.   Section  5.1:   Number  and Amount  Available  for Award  to
               Single Participant
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                    The total number  of shares of Stock  subject to Awards
               under  the  Plan may  not  exceed 1,677,500  (of  this total
               number,  up to  80,000  shares of  Stock  may be  issued  in
               Restricted Stock), and  the total number of shares  of Stock
               which may be made  subject to Awards granted under  the Plan
               in  any calendar  year  to any  single  Participant may  not
               exceed 65,000.  Such  numbers of shares shall be  subject to
               adjustment upon occurrence of any of the events described in
               Section 5.3. The shares  to be delivered under the  Plan may
               consist, in  whole or  in part,  of authorized  but unissued
               Stock or treasury Stock, not reserved for any other purpose.

          4.   Section 5.2:  Reuse
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                    If, and to the extent: 

                    (a)  An Option shall expire or terminate for any reason
               without having  been exercised in  full (including,  without
               limitation, cancellation and re-grant), or in the event that
               an Option is exercised or settled in a manner such that some
               or all of the shares of  Stock related to the Option are not
               issued to the Participant (or beneficiary) (including as the
               result  of the  use of  shares for  withholding  taxes), the
               shares  of  Stock  subject  thereto which  have  not  become
               outstanding shall  (unless the Plan  shall have  terminated)
               become  available for  issuance  under  the Plan;  provided,
               however,  that with  respect to a  share-for-share exercise,
               only  the net shares issued  shall be deemed  to have become
               outstanding as a result thereof.

                    (b)      Restricted   Stock,   Performance   Shares  or
               Performance Units  under the Plan forfeited  for any reason,
               or settled in cash in lieu of Stock or in a manner such that
               some or  all of the shares of Stock related to the award are
               not issued to the  Participant (or beneficiary), such shares
               of  Stock  shall (unless  the  Plan  shall have  terminated)
               become available  for  issuance under  the  Plan;  provided,
               however, that if any  dividends paid with respect  to shares
               of  Restricted Stock or Performance Shares  were paid to the
               Participant  prior to  the forfeiture  thereof, such  shares
               shall not be reused for grants or awards.

                    (c)  SARs expire or  terminate for any reasons  without
               having  been earned in full,  an equal number  of SARs shall
               (unless  the   1989  Plan  shall  have   terminated)  become
               available for issuance under the Plan.

          4.   Section 6.1:  Duration of Plan
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                    The Plan shall remain in effect, subject to the Board's
               right to earlier  terminate the Plan pursuant  to Section 14
               hereof,  until  all  Stock  subject to  it  shall  have been
               purchased  or acquired  pursuant  to the  provisions hereof.
               Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Award may be granted under
               the Plan on or after February 21, 2006.

          5.   Section 9.2:  Transferability
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                    Except as provided  in Sections 9.8 and 9.9 hereof, the
               shares  of Restricted  Stock  granted hereunder  may not  be
               sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated
               or  hypothecated  for  such  period  of  time  as  shall  be
               determined by  the Committee and  shall be specified  in the
               Restricted  Stock  grant,  or upon  earlier  satisfaction of
               other  conditions  (which  may  include  the  attainment  of
               performance  goals as  defined in  Section 10.8  hereof), as
               specified  by the Committee  in its sole  discretion and set
               forth in the Restricted Stock grant.

          6.   Section 10.8:  Performance Goals
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                    For  purposes   of  Sections  9.2   and  10.2   hereof,
               "performance goals" shall mean  the criteria and objectives,
               determined  by the  Committee  pursuant to  the Plan,  which
               shall be satisfied or  met during the applicable restriction
               period  or  performance period,  as the  case  may be,  as a
               condition to  the Participant's  receipt, in  the case of  a
               grant  of the  Restricted Stock  or a  grant of  Performance
               Shares, of the shares of Stock  subject to such grant, or in
               the  case of  a  Performance  Unit  Award, of  payment  with
               respect  to such  Award.   Such criteria and  objectives may
               include, but are not limited to, return on assets, return on
               equity,  growth  in net  earnings,  growth  in earnings  per
               share, asset  growth,  deposit growth,  loan  growth,  asset
               quality levels,  growth  in the  Fair  Market Value  of  the
               Stock,  or any  combination of  the foregoing  or  any other
               criteria and  objectives determined by the  Committee.  Upon
               completion of  the  restricted  period  or  the  performance
               period,  as the case may be, the Committee shall certify the
               level of  the performance goals  attained and the  amount of
               the Award payable as a result thereof.

          7.   Section 13.2:  Definition
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                    For  purposes of the Plan,  a "change in control" shall
               mean any of the following events:

                    (a)  Any  "person" (as  such term is  used in  Sections
               13(d) and 14(d) of  the Securities Exchange Act of  1934, as
               amended),  other  than  (i)  a trustee  or  other  fiduciary
               holding  securities under  an employee  benefit plan  of the
               Company  or  a  subsidiary,  or  (ii)  a  corporation  owned
               directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in
               substantially  the same  proportions as  their  ownership of
               stock of the  Company, is or becomes  the "beneficial owner"
               (as defined  in  Rule 13d-3  under  said Act),  directly  or
               indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 10% or
               more  of the  total  voting power  of  the then  outstanding
               shares  of capital  stock of  the Company  entitled to  vote
               generally in the election of directors (the "Voting Stock"),
               or

                    (b)    During  any  period of  two  consecutive  years,
               individuals, who at the  beginning of such period constitute
               the Board,  and  any new  director,  whose election  by  the
               Board,   or  nomination   for  election  by   the  Company's
               stockholders was approved by  a vote of at least  two-thirds
               (2/3)  of the directors then still in office who either were
               directors at the beginning  of the period or  whose election
               or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease
               for any reason to constitute a majority thereof, or 

                    (c)  The  stockholders of the Company  approve a merger
               of consolidation of the  Company with any other corporation,
               other than  a merger or consolidation which  would result in
               the  Voting  Stock  outstanding  immediately  prior  thereto
               continuing to represent (either  by remaining outstanding or
               by being  converted into voting securities  of the surviving
               entity)  at least 80% of the  total voting power represented
               by the  Voting  Stock  or  the  voting  securities  of  such
               surviving entity outstanding  immediately after such  merger
               or consolidation, or the stockholders of the Company approve
               a  Plan  of  complete  liquidation  of  the  Company  or  an
               agreement  for the sale or disposition by the Company of all
               or substantially all of the Company's assets.

               The Board has final authority to determine the exact date on
               which a change in  control has been deemed to  have occurred
               under (a), (b), and (c) above.

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                               SECRETARY'S CERTIFICATE
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          The foregoing First Amendment to  the First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
          1989  Omnibus  Stock  and Incentive  Plan  was  duly adopted  and
          approved  by the Company's Board of the Directors on November 15,
          1995  and  shall become  effective as  of  such date,  subject to
          ratification thereof  by the  Company's stockholders at  the 1996
          Annual Meeting of Stockholders.  Awards granted under the Plan on
          or  after the effective date of this First Amendment with respect
          to the additional shares of Stock authorized hereby, or  pursuant
          to any  of the amendments made  to the Plan hereby,  shall not be
          exercisable or payable to  a Participant without such stockholder
          approval.

          This  First Amendment  to the  First  Midwest Bancorp,  Inc. 1989
          Omnibus  Stock  and Incentive  Plan  was  duly  approved  by  the
          stockholders of the Company at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders
          held on April 16, 1996.



          CORPORATE                                                       

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            SEAL                   By:  Alan R. Milasius
                                        Senior  Vice President  & Corporate
                                        Secretary







                            SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE
                          FIRST MIDWEST BANCORP, INC.
                       OMNIBUS STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN
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      The First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. 1989 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan is
hereby amended as follows:


      Section 2.1(e) is amended to read:

            "Committee" means the Compensation Committee of the Board of
      Directors or such other  committee appointed from time to  time by
      the Board of  Directors to  administer this Plan.   The  Committee
      shall consist of two  or more members, each of whom  shall qualify
      as  a "disinterested person," as the term (or similar or successor
      term)  is  defined by  Rule 16b-3,  and  as an  "outside director"
      within  the  meaning  of   Code  Section  162(m)  and  regulations
      thereunder.

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      The foregoing Second Amendment  to the 1989 Omnibus Stock  and Incentive
Plan was duly adopted and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company on
May 15, 1996 and shall become effective as of such date.

                                    /s/  Alan R. Milasius     
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                                    Secretary of the Company