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Resources are listed in alphabetical order. More information can always be found by using our website search bar, or contacting a member of our staff.

113 tags found in 3293 resources.

Abolitionists

11 items

Arthur L Pillsbury

Arthur L. Pillsbury was a well-known local architect that designed schools, churches, businesse...

8 items

Automobiles

10 items

Aviation

25 items

Baseball and Softball

30 items

Basketball

11 items

Beer

6 items

Birds

5 items

Black Hawk War

3 items

Black History Project

35 items

Bloomington High School

15 items

Bloomington Public Schools

10 items

Booker T Washington Home

7 items

Boxing

5 items

Brewery

2 items

Brokaw Hospital

5 items

Catholic Church

6 items

Cattle

7 items

Celebrations, Parties, and Parades

21 items

Charity, Philanthropy, and Fundraisers

9 items

Chicago & Alton Railroad Shops

12 items

Christmas

22 items

Civil War

72 items

Corn

28 items

Crime

9 items

Dance

4 items

Deathcare

23 items

Dogs

13 items

Early Settlers

56 items

Electric Vehicles

1 item

Elementary School

6 items

Enslavers

5 items

Famous Locals

20 items

Featured

2 items

Fire

19 items

First

10 items

Food and Restaurants

3 items

Football

4 items

Formerly Enslaved Person

5 items

General Electric (GE)

2 items

German

31 items

Golf

4 items

Great Depression

17 items

Gymnastics

2 items

Halloween

3 items

Historic Marker

4 items

Horses

20 items

Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Childrens School (ISSCS)

8 items

Illinois State Government

7 items

Illinois State University (ISU)

71 items

Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU)

38 items

Immigration

8 items

Infrastructure

19 items

Institutional Racism

15 items

Irish

7 items

Jail and Prison

5 items

Jewish History & Moses Montefiore Temple

8 items

Judges and Lawyers

21 items

Kickapoo

6 items

Kids having fun

17 items

Killed in Action

4 items

Local Myth

Have you heard? Bloomington had the nation's first brick streets....

3 items

Local Product

25 items

McLean County Coal Company

6 items

McLean County Historical Society

7 items

McLean County Poor Farm

6 items

Mennonite Hospital

5 items

Mental Health

12 items

Methodist Church

4 items

Miller Park

4 items

Misogyny and Patriarchy

8 items

Mississippian

5 items

NAACP

12 items

Now it is a parking lot

Places that are now parking lots....

14 items

Painting & Drawing

3 items

Pandemics and Outbreaks

8 items

Photography

4 items

Pigs

10 items

poetry

1 item

Poverty

7 items

Prohibition

3 items

Quaker

5 items

Railroad

9 items

Route 66

11 items

Second Presbyterian Church

9 items

Sharecropping

1 item

Socialism

7 items

Spanish-American War

6 items

Spiritualism

1 item

Spring

5 items

State Farm Insurance

14 items

Suffrage

12 items

Summer

5 items

Swedish

4 items

Television, Radio, & Film

11 items

Thanksgiving

2 items

Tornado

7 items

Toys & Games

6 items

Trains, Streetcars, & Railroads

50 items

Tulsa Race Massacre

2 items

Unitarian Church

3 items

University of Illinois (U of I)

7 items

Urban Renewal

3 items

Urban Sprawl

4 items

Veteran

44 items

Vietnam War

8 items

Voting Rights

8 items

Wayman A.M.E. Church

9 items

Winter

12 items

World War One (WWI)

42 items

World War Two (WWII)

50 items

YMCA

4 items

Young Men's Club

1 item

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