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Bloomington home to world champion singing mouse
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Colonial Theatre once Colfax mainstay
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Million-dollar cartoonist got start in Bloomington
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‘Welby and Pearl,’ minstrel act with local roots
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ISU held racially segregated spring dances in the 1930s and ’40s
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Mandolin enjoyed ‘golden age’ in late 19th century
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Community Christmas ‘sing’ once annual event
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TV’s early years included short-lived Bloomington station
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Twin Cities once hosted own Chautauqua
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Undertaker’s invoice window into Bloomington’s rich past
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Pantagraph reporter turns sci-fi writer
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Dance marathons, walkathons once talk of the town
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New Year’s Eve 1919 meant hope for better times
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Buck Mann Park hidden west side gem
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Hollywood Legends Brought Local Author’s Novel to Silver Screen
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West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s
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Reagan’s conservatism forged during years with GE
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Notorious silent movie drew local protests
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Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition
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Duke Ellington big draw in Twin Cities
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Marbles popular with young and old alike of 19th century
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Julia Vrooman brought jazz to WW I doughboys
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May Christian, forever her own woman

Biographies

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Shipley, Richard
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Holder, Julia
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Noble, Emily Vecchi
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Schroeder, Dr. Herman
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Schroeder, Baroness Maria von Buchau
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Green, Harry -"The Flying LaVans"
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Green, Fred -"The Flying LaVans"
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Rhymer, Paul
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Stokes, Ella Lee

Blog

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October Means ‘Rocktober’ Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival Aerials, May 31, 1970

Photo of the Week, 7: Oasis Drive-In, Lexington, 1961

Photo of the Week, 25: Et tu, Brute? “Julius Caesar” at the Consistory, 1931

Big Dance in Colfax—100 years ago!

LeRoy Centennial Parade October 19, 1935

LeRoy Centennial Queen October 19, 1935

LeRoy Fall Festival September 1963

Lexington Dog Show July 31, 1940

Backstage, Majestic Theatre Bloomington, undated

Depression-Era Skaters Bloomington, Circa 1930s

Home TV Storefront, 1954 216 W. Washington St., Bloomington

American Passion Play Backstage Laughs, 1954

Annual YMCA Circus Downtown Bloomington, March 1938 Part 2

Annual YMCA Circus Downtown Bloomington, March 1938 Part 1

American Passion Play Behind the Curtain, 1963

Photo of the Week: Dolls On Parade O’Neil Park, July 1939

Fourth Generation American Passion Play, 1961

Community Players Groundbreaking December 7, 1960

Corny Christmas Contest, 1934 Guess the Number of Kernels

Photo of the Week, 118: Acid Flashback! Local Rock Festival Held 45 Years Ago

Events

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Slow Art Day on Route 66

Finding Aids

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Dance Card

Folsom, Elizabeth Irons

Game Designers' Workshop

WLS Barn Dance

Hart, James

Heartland Theatre Company

Hitch, Fred

Illinois Shakespeare Festival

Jones, Ethel Pearle Smith
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McLean County Basketball Tournament

Morgan, Charles

Myers, John F.

Reis, Evelyn

Rhymer, Paul

Central Illinois Art Exposition, Scottish Rite Temple, March 19 – April 8, 1939

Circus

Dowell, Joe

Sanders, Josephine ("Irene Delroy") / Pike-Sanders

Sharp, Dorothy

Sheet Music

Sinclair, Harold
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Sohl, Jerry

Sports Cards

State Farm Classic

Steele, Nelle Theater

Tate, H. Clay
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Tucker, Wilson

Vera Pearl Kemp Scrapbooks Collection

Webb, Sidney

WJBC Radio

Bloomington Gold (Corvette Show)

Century of Progress Collection
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Community Players

Corn Bowl

Euleo Puppets

McLean County Ethnographies

Miller Park

Williamson, Doug WJBC Forum

Pantagraph Comics

Phonograph and Audio

Smith, Sidney

WGLT Program Guides and Annual Reports

WIHN

Hoppe, Jim

Irvin, Clarence E.

Castle Theater

Arthur Drake School Band of America Collection

Barbershoppers

Baseball

Behr, Lincoln A. Theater Program

Calendar Collection
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Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival

Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA)

Bloomington Sesquicentennial

Lincolns in Town

McLean County Sesquicentennial Committee

Corn on the Curb 2000

Bent, Horatio C.

World's Columbian Exposition

Angler’s Lake

Children’s Theater Association of Bloomington-Normal

Beyond Normal Films

Crothers, Rachel

Annette, Mme

Making a Home

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Livingston Family

Oral Histories

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Claude Hursey

Publications

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Rituals and Passages: 75 Years of The American Passion Play

Home Town in the Corn Belt, Volume 2: Entertainments and Pastimes

Speakers Bureau

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A History of the Evergreen Cemetery Walk

Dine with the Dead: Cemetery Customs and Traditions of Days Gone By

The Showmen's Final Resting Place

To Be a Writer, One Has To Be a Reader: the Life and Work of Clara Louise Kessler

Wet or Dry? - Prohibition in McLean County, 1920-1933

Artists, Advocates, Acrobats, and More! Women Who Made McLean County History

Working for a Living

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Sid Smith

Circus Performers