Chicago Board of Trade Interim President and CEO Dutterer In Key Panel At Expo 2000

Chicago Board of Trade Interim President and CEO Dennis A Dutterer will lead the exchange’s participation in a key panel discussion November 7 at the Futures Industry Association’s Futures and Options Expo 2000 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. Dutterer’s discussion, entitled "Chicago Revisited" will focus on the status of the CBOT®’s restructuring strategy, the exchange’s efforts in Washington, and the CBOT®’s desire to provide customers the best of both markets, via the a/c/e electronic trading platform or by enhancing open outcry with technology.

Joining Dutterer on the panel will be Chicago Board Options Exchange President and CEO William Brodsky, Board of Trade Clearing Corporation Executive Vice President Tom Hammond, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange President and CEO James McNulty. Moderator will be Steven Spence, Managing Director and Head of Financial Futures and Options, Merrill Lynch Futures, Inc.

The CBOT® and a/c/e, the CBOT®/Eurex electronic trading platform, will host two separate receptions for industry leaders, market participants and media representatives attending the Expo, on Nov. 7 and 8.

The Expo showcases products, services and information for futures and options industry professionals and market participants. More than 4,000 people from around the world are expected to attend the Expo, ranging from senior staff, to floor traders, pension fund managers, corporate treasurers, CTAs and CPOs and individual investors.

The CBOT®® urges its members and membership interest holders to read the Registration Statement on Form S-4, including the proxy statement/prospectus contained within the Registration Statement, regarding the CBOT®® restructuring referred to herein or in connection herewith, when it becomes available, as well as the other documents that the CBOT®® has filed or will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, because they contain or will contain important information. CBOT®® members and membership interest holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus, when it becomes available, and other documents filed by the CBOT®® at the Commission's web site at www. sec.gov, or from the CBOT®® by directing such request in writing or by telephone to: Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc., 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604-2994, Attention: Office of the Secretary, Telephone: (312) 435-3605, Facsimile: (312) 347-3827. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state in which offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.