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Past Exhibits
- 9/11: McLean County Responds
- Adlai! The Life and Times of Adlai E. Stevenson II
- A Matter of Life and Death
- A Passion For Detail: The Architectural Legacy of A.L. Pillsbury
- A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War
- Beneath the Pattern
- Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008
- Details of Architecture
- Fiesta! A Celebration of Mexican Popular Art
- Flaming Youth: The Flapper and the Roaring Twenties
- Freewheeling Into the 20th Century
- From Childhoods Past: 19th and 20th Century
- Gifts to the Prairie: The Work of Pioneer Nurserymen and the Art of the Prestele Family
- Growing Up in the Fifties
- Headlines & Footnotes: Hats & Shoes from the collection of the McLean County Historical Society
- Heads and Tales
- Heartland Home Front and America's Fight for Democracy: McLean County in WWII
- Journey Through the Great Depression
- Just Corn: The "Amaizing" Story
- Lincoln Slept Here? Connecting to Greatness
- Made in McLean County: A History of Manufacturing in McLean County
- Oddities! Or Not?
- Prairie Thunder: 80 Years of Railroad Photography
- Presence, Pride & Passion: A History of African Americans in McLean County
- Promenade Through the Park
- Rediscovery: The Art of Withers Library
- Rituals & Passages: 75 Years of the American Passion Play
- Route 66: Goin' Somewhere
- The Popular Paisley Pattern
- The McLean County Courthouse
- To Sustain the Union: Central Illinois in the Civil War
- Treasures from the Stevenson House
- Unconquerable: Photos and History of the Kickapoo Indians
- What's That Coming Down The Line... The Railroad in the American Mind
- With the Greatest of Ease.. Bloomington's Artists of the Trapeze
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Oral Histories
- Beth Echeverria
- Caribel Washington
- Claude Hursey
- Delores Campbell and Mary Trunnell
- Elidia Miller
- Ethel Murray
- Fernando Garza
- Howard and Elaine Bell
- Irene Barnes
- Jesus Villaneuva
- John Barrientes
- Josephine Samuels & Reginald Whittaker
- Kathyrn Dean
- Lucinda Posey
- Lucy Woosley
- Lue Anna Clark
- Manny and Margot Mendoza
- Manuel Cordero
- Merlin and Beulah Kennedy
- Oscar and Ruth Waddell
- Richard and Rose Bell
- Robert and Lillian Augusta Boykin
- Robert Gaston
- Roy and Delores Shavers
- Sarita Mendiola
- Sonny Garcia
- Vincenta "Esperanza" Cornejo
- Wilbur Barton
Videos
- Bloomington-Normal Innovation Alliance: Partnering for Our Digital Future
- COVID-19 Past, Present, and Future: Lessons Learned
- Creating a Public Art Destination
- Seasonal Choral Music with the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir
- The Pantagraph: Images to Inform and Inspire
- The Puerto Rico Town Experience in Achieving Cultural District Designation
- Volunteers at the McLean County Museum of History
- What Does Fido Know? Inside the Mind of the Dog
- 5G High Speed and Antennas Everywhere
- The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois
- 'Tattooing Finds You:' How Tattooists Navigate their World
- Lincoln in Downtown Bloomington -- 360 degree video
- The Night the Stars Fell
- Pitfalls and Promise: Memorializing McLean County's Past
- McLean County Holiday Stories
- Before Rivian: The Henney Kilowatt--Bloomington's Battery-powered 'Car of Tomorrow'
- Buckle of the Corn Belt: An Illustrated Tour of McLean County & Everyone's Favorite Grain
- Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn performed by Rhys Lovell
- Dreams & Life on the Prairie- Latinos in McLean County 1880 to Today
- Artists, Advocates, Acrobats, & More! Women Who Made McLean County History
- Elections with Robert Bradley
- Opening Plenary: Leveraging Policy and Creating Cultural Districts to Drive Economic Success
- Social Justice History Walking Tour
- Conversando Entre Nosotros: What’s in a Label?
- Echoes of Purple and Gold with Jack Keefe
- "Whiskey vs Lager Beer – Bejabers:" The Irish, the bete noir of Lincoln’s Republican Party
- Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair
- Contested Civil Liberties in 19th Century McLean County, with Greg Koos
- Lunch & Learn: Quirky Sites in Illinois
- Crafting History: Wonders of Weaving
- Ecology Action Center Tree Corps
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- Map Of McLean County, Ill. 1886.
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