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Want to purchase today's print edition? Here's a map of single-copy locations. Sign up for our daily newsletter here There’s a story behind InsureChampaign’s business philosophy (“We run towards the fire, we do not run away”), one that Managing Director MIKE TENNANT never tires of telling. “I had been in the insurance business for several years and had sold insurance to an older friend.
That friend called me to say his garage had caught fire and about burned his house down. I Immediately dropped what I was doing and headed over to the house. “Back in the day, I would keep tarps and stacks of wood — just in case — in my garage so when I showed up at his house, I had a ladder, tarps and the necessary materials to get his roof sealed off from the elements.
I also had called and arranged for him to stay at a hotel until such time things could be evaluated. I believe he, as well as his neighbors, were a little shocked that the insurance agent was climbing up on a roof and taking care of business.” Champaign born and raised, Tennant has been in the insurance business for 41 years and married to wife Judy for 40.
They have three sons and eight (going on nine) grandkids, who Tennant hopes “become athl.
