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Electronic Voting Instructions

You can vote by Internet or telephone!

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Instead of mailing your proxy, you may choose one of the two votingmethods outlined below to vote your proxy.

VALIDATION DETAILS ARE LOCATED BELOW IN THE TITLE BAR.

Proxies submitted by the Internet or telephone must be received by

1:00a.m., CentralTime, on April 30, 2008.

Vote by Internet

• Log on to the Internet and go to

www.investorvote.com

• Follow the steps outlined on the secured website.

Vote by telephone

• Call toll free 1-800-652-VOTE (8683) within the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico any time on a touch tonetelephone. There is NO CHARGE to you for the call.

•Follow the instructions provided by the recorded message.

IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED VIA THE INTERNET ORTELEPHONE, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE..

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01 - Kenneth R. Diepholz

02 - Steven L. Grissom

03 - Gary W. Melvin

2. In their discretion, on such other matters that may properlycome before the meeting and any adjournments thereof.

Meeting Attendance

Mark box to the right ifyou plan to attend theAnnual Meeting.

NOTE: Please sign your name(s) EXACTLY as your name(s) appear(s) on this proxy. All joint holders must sign. When signing as attorney, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian or

corporate officer, please provide your FULL title.

Date (mm/dd/yyyy) — Please print date below. Signature 1 — Please keep signature within the box. Signature 2 — Please keep signature within the box.

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IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED VIA THE INTERNET OR TELEPHONE, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE..

Proxy — FIRST MID-ILLINOIS BANCSHARES, INC.

PROXY is Solicited By the Board of DirectorsFor the Annual Meeting of Stockholders – April 30, 2008

The undersigned hereby appoints Michael L. Taylor, John W. Hedges and Laurel G. Allenbaugh, or any of them acting in the absence of the others, with fullpower of substitution, as attorneys and proxies, for and in the name and place of the undersigned, to vote the number of shares of Common Stock that theundersigned would be entitled to vote if then personally present and voting at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of First Mid-Illinois Bancshares, Inc., to be held in the lobby of the First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust, 1515 Charleston Avenue, Mattoon, Illinois, on April 30, 2008, at 4:00 p.m., local time, or anyadjournments or postponements thereof, upon the matters set forth in the Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement (receipt of which is herebyacknowledged) as designated on the reverse and, in their discretion, upon such other business as may come before the meeting.

THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFICATIONS MADE. IF NO CHOICE IS INDICATED, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FORTHE ELECTION OF ALL NOMINEES LISTED HEREON.

YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT!

PLEASE VOTE YOUR SHARES BY COMPLETING, SIGNING, DATING AND RETURNING THIS PROXY CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

(Continued and to be signed and dated on the reverse side.)