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Heartland Partners Appoints George Lightbourn to Board CHICAGO, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Heartland Partners, L.P. , today announced George Lightbourn, a long-time Wisconsin state official, has been appointed to the boardof managers and the board's audit committee. Lightbourn, of Monona, Wisconsin, is currently a Senior Fellow with the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a Milwaukee-based think tank focusing on Wisconsin public policy issues. Prior to that he servedunder two governors as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration, a post he held from January 2000 to January 2003. From 1995 to 1999 he was deputy secretary of the Department of Administration. Lightbourn also held several other budget and management posts in Wisconsin state government beginning in 1977. He has served on numerous boards including the Wisconsin Investment Board, the UW Hospital and Clinics Authority Board, the Educational Communications Board, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority Board and the Wisconsin Center Board. He currently serves on the Madison Cultural Arts District Board, the Monona Economic Development Committee and the Board of Directors of SpaceMetrics, a commercial cabinet company in Oregon Wisconsin. Lightbourn received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He is married and has three grown children. About Heartland Heartland Partners is a Chicago-based real estate partnership with properties in 14 states, primarily in the upper Midwest and northern United States. CMC Heartland is a subsidiary of Heartland Partners, L.P. CMC is the successor to the Milwaukee Road Railroad, founded in 1847. DATASOURCE: Heartland Partners, L.P. CONTACT: Richard Brandstatter, President, of Heartland Partners, L.P., +1-312-575-0400; or Karl Plath or Brien Gately of The Investor Relations Co., +1-847-296-4200

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