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Food and Restaurants

Articles

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Local tractor company never gained traction
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Picture postcard speaks to power of donations
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Clara Brian champion of farm families

Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel
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Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois
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Homemade Christmas dinner once a McLean County jail tradition

Biographies

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Riebsame, Christian
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Davis, Elmer
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Wickizer, Jennie MacDonald
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Vrooman, Julia Scott
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Sanders, Isaac
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Belt, Augustus "Gus"
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Belt, Edith Pressler
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Stokes, Ella Lee

Blog

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McDonald’s Open for Business 806 S. Main St., Normal February 1959

East Twin Grove Farmers’ Picnic July 28, 1922

McDonald’s in Normal 806 S. Main St., 1961

Thompson’s Restaurant, Undated 208 N. Center St., Downtown Bloomington

Mount Hope Ladies Aid Moore’s Mill Marker, August 1968

Smell that Smoke! Cecil Cone’s Barbecue, May 1953

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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1853 to 1899: Labor

Farm Wives

Finding Aids

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Dairies Collection

Making a Home

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The Mississippians

Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

The Kickapoo

Samuel Hayes

Oral Histories

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Lue Anna Clark

Publications

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Come And Get It: McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community

Speakers Bureau

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German Brewers in Bloomington, IL 1859-1920

Videos

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Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair

Working for a Living

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Pioneering Merchants

Food on the Run

Changing Shipping Practices