Illinois Equipment Distributors

Welcome to IED

We welcome your interest in IED. It was founded in 1951 as a not-for-profit corporation. Current membership consists of 37 organizations, including Regular voting Members and non-voting Associate Members.

Join us to exchange ideas with other members and to add your voice for industry improvements. We believe that there is strength in numbers, and we have been successful in the past to defend industry practices, to protect from unfair taxation and to fend off questionable manufacturer dictates.

Business Meetings

There are five meetings this year: three Business Meetings and two Social Meetings.

2026 Event Schedule

Dates for our events in 2026 will be announced after our January board meeting.

Meetings are held at Venuti’s Restaurant & Banquet Hall, 2251 W Lake St, Addison, Illinois, unless otherwise noted.

Our IED Officers and Directors

Jen Snow

President

Jimy Joseph

Vice President / Treasurer

Tom Stern

Executive Secretary

David Cox

1st Year Director

Michael Morton

2nd Year Director

Joe McKeon

Associate Director

Mission Statement

The business and purposes of this Association shall be to safeguard, promote, foster and advance the interests of its members as Distributors of Construction Machinery and its kindred products; to increase the use of these products; to improve the conditions under which the industry is carried on; to encourage fair business methods; to protect the industry against unfair and unjust burdens and exactions; to collect and disseminate pertinent data relative to the industry; and, generally, do such things authorized in its Certificate of Incorporation as may be necessary to the foregoing results.