By: Lindsay Van Zele Communications Coordinator While respectful service to our customers reflects concern for meeting their needs, our employees also show their care for the community through volunteer service and monetary donations. One of our most popular volunteer opportunities doesn’t require money or manual labor: It’s giving blood. One employee who routinely donates at…
Read More »
By: Sarah Phalen INB President and CEO The turn of the new year provides a natural opportunity to evaluate our lives. What positive changes do we want to make? What do we want to happen in the coming year? How can we improve our schedules, habits, attitudes or situations? We asked our team at INB…
Read More »
By: Marilyn Titone Schaefer AVP, Communications Director The name is catchy: Lincoln Land Mo’ Bros The cause is good: Men’s Health Their numbers are small: Two But you have to start somewhere. And INB’s Mortgage Funding Specialist Justin Graves and a friend started the action in the Springfield area. The Lincoln Land Mo’ Bros mission…
Read More »
By Marilyn Titone Schaefer AVP, Communications Director When we planned knitting and crochet events at our branches to support the American Heart Association’s Little Hats, Big Hearts campaign, we didn’t know what to expect. For starters, would anyone be interested? And what would a session entail? From the start, we found interest from INB staff.…
Read More »
By Cayla Keyes South Sixth Branch Manager NMLS # 662877 “AWWW!” The exclaim of delight was heard from the full conference room at INB’s South 6th St. branch on Wednesday morning. INB’s Vicki Wall held up a tiny, red knitted hat with a matching bow knitted right into the design for the group to admire.…
Read More »
By Lindsay Van Zele Communications Coordinator Ninety-nine out of every 100 babies born in the United States starts life with a healthy heart. Yet one in every four deaths of people living in the U.S. is attributed to heart disease. While not all heart ailments can be avoided, living a healthy life from day one…
Read More »
By: Marilyn Titone Schaefer AVP, Communications Director Work neighbor. Customer. Friend. Those are just a few terms INB Peoria’s Market Manager Trip James uses to refer to Dr. Khurram Rashid, owner of Rashid Putnam Plastic Surgery. He recently added “workout buddy” to the list when Khurram challenged Trip to run the Chicago Half Marathon. Trip…
Read More »
By: Marilyn Titone Schaefer AVP, Communications Director United Way’s Day of Action always brings out a big team from INB. On a recent late summer day, we used all of our people power to build elevated garden boxes for genHkids in the Johnson Park Place area to use to grow their own vegetables. It always…
Read More »
By Kelley Himmelberg Director of Human Resources John Bryant was pleasantly surprised to see a large turnout of 28 INB runners for the recent United Way 5K, especially because they all showed up to race despite terrible weather conditions. “Everyone gave it their all, even though it was raining pretty hard for the majority of…
Read More »
By: Sarah Phalen Executive Vice President, NMLS #662901 Former Chicago linebacker Brian Urlacher offered some great advice to an audience of outstanding high school athletes: “You know what’s right, and you know what’s wrong. Do what’s right.” Urlacher made this comment at the recent All Star Preps Capital Region Awards Banquet honoring high school athletes.…
Read More »