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Abolitionists

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Arthur L Pillsbury

Arthur L. Pillsbury was an architect that designed schools, churches, businesses, and homes, in the early 20th century.  His buildings represent some of the best examples of fine architecture in Central Illinois.

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Automobiles

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships.

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Baseball and Softball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. 

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Basketball

A sport in which two teams compete with the primary objective of throwing a basketball through the opposing team's hoop.

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Beer

The most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world.

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Birds

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Black Hawk War

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Black History Project

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bloomington

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Bloomington High School

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Bloomington Public Schools

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Booker T Washington Home

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Boxing

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Brewery

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Brokaw Hospital

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Catholic Church

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Cattle

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Celebrations, parties, and parades

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Charity, Philanthropy, and Fundraisers

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Chicago & Alton Railroad Shops

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Chickens

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Christmas

An annual winter holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.

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Cigars and Cigarettes

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Circus

A traveling company of entertainers who give performances, often in a large tent.

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Civil War

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Corn

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COVID-19

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Crime

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Dance

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Dogs

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Early Settlers

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Electric Vehicles

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Elementary School

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Enslavers

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Famous Locals

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Featured

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Fire

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First

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Food and Restaurants

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Football

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Formerly Enslaved Person

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General Electric (GE)

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German

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Golf

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Great Depression

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Gymnastics

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Halloween

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High School

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Historic Marker

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Horses

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Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Childrens School (ISSCS)

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Illinois State Government

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Illinois State University (ISU)

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Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU)

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immigration

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Incarceration

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Infrastructure

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Institutional Racism

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Irish

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isscs

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Jail and Prison

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Jewish History & Moses Montefiore Temple

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Judges and Lawyers

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Kickapoo

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Kids having fun

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Killed in Action

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Latino History Project

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Local Myth

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

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Local Product

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Maple Sirup

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McLean County Coal Company

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McLean County Historical Society

7 items

McLean County Poor Farm

5 items

MCMH History Makers

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Mennonite Hospital

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Mental Health

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Methodist Church

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Miller Park

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Misogyny and Patriarchy

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Mississippian

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NAACP

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Now it is a parking lot

Places that are now parking lots.

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Oral Histories

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Painting & Drawing

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Photography

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Pigs

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Poetry

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postcards

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Postcards & Greeting Cards

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Prohibition

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Quaker

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Railroad

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Route 66

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Second Presbyterian Church

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Sharecropping

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Socialism

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Spanish-American War

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Spiritualism

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Spring

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State Farm Insurance

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Suffrage

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Summer

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Swedish

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Television, Radio, & Film

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Thanksgiving

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The Daily Bulletin

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The Pantagraph

The Pantagraph or the Daily Pantagraph newspaper.

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Tornado

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Trains, Streetcars, & Railroads

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Tulsa Race Massacre

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Union Baptist Church

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Unitarian Church

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University of Illinois (U of I)

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Urban Renewal

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Urban Sprawl

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Veteran

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Vietnam War

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Vocational Schools

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Voting Rights

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Wayman A.M.E. Church

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west-side

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Winter

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World War One (WWI)

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World War Two (WWII)

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YMCA

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Young Men's Club

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