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A Community in Conflict

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1822

1855

1870

1874

1907

1917

1918

1931

1967

1969

1978

1984

Abraham Lincoln in McLean County

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Expansion of Slavery

Lincoln's Lost Speech

Friends and Allies

The Dark Horse Candidate

From Candidate to President and Beyond

Articles

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Stevenson faced anti-U.N. mob in 1963
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Campaign to aid Britain comes to Bloomington
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Local abolitionists faced rage, mob violence
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Kent State shootings spark month of campus unrest
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Bloomington schools integrated decade after Civil War
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President Johnson receives ‘stern rebuke’ from locals in 1866
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Phoenix Hall site of Lincoln’s last speech in Bloomington
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Virtual cemetery walk showcases amazing Florence Funk
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Bloomington’s oldest park turns 165 this week
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Donated Vrooman letter speaks to wartime loss
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New Year’s Eve 1919 meant hope for better times
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Community fund drive kept C&A Shops in Bloomington
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Reagan’s conservatism forged during years with GE
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South side firehouse built after Great Fire of 1900
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Bloomington’s Fifer Bohrer first state Senator
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Normal’s rich past dealt blow with razing of Fell house in 1980
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Project to mark firefighter graves lesson in history

Biographies

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Anthony, Susan B.
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Edwards, Ruby
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Gridley, Mary
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Scott, Julia Green
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Henderson, Effie
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Stevenson, Helen Davis
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Stevenson, Letitia Green
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FitzHenry, Judge Louis
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Van Schoick, William
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Fell, Jesse Weldon
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Blue, Richard
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Crandall, June W.
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Davis, Sarah
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Hill, Dr. William
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McCurdy, Helen Clark
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Jones, Eva
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Foster, Daniel T.
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Brokaw, Abraham
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Benjamin, Reuben Moore
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Hogg, Harvey
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Orme, William Ward
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Graves, Linus
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Gridley, Asahel
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Doubleday, Ulysses Freeman
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Stevenson, Adlai E. I
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Funk, Florence Mae Risser
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Stevenson, Adlai E. II
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Vrooman, Carl
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Hanson, Ethel Hamilton
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Rogers, Dr. Thomas
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McNulta, John
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Funk, Benjamin Franklin
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Scott, Charlotte Ann Perry
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Trotter, Georgina
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Vrooman, Julia Scott

Blog

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Photo of the Week 19: New Deal Rally, September 1933

Photo of the Week, 63: ​Reefer Madness In Bloomington, November 1937

Illinois Bicentennial flag raising kicks off year of programs

Photo of the Week, 36: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."

Photo of the Week, 57: Dedication of the Normal Post Office, 1936

Photo of the Week, 66: African-American Voters Organize, February 1972

Photo of the Week, 99: Calling All Cars! Normal Police Department, 1938

LeRoy’s CCC Camp August 1934

BPD’s Rogues Gallery August 1947

City Hoosegow September 1938

Labor Secretary Visits Bloomington October 17, 1935

Bloomington Fire Department Demonstration, December 15, 1939

New Two-Way Radios Bloomington Fire Department, 1953

Urban Renewal, Bloomington Future Site of Library, 1971

Free range … no more! City Hall booking, March 30, 1958

Municipal Workers on Strike May 1968

Bloomington Centennial 65 Years Ago this Week!

Bloomington Centennial ‘Young Pioneers’ Parade, September 19, 1950

FDR in Bloomington October 14, 1936

Another One Bites the Dust Mar-Len Hotel, June 1988

Bloomington Fire Station No. 2 214 W. Washington St., c. 1883

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

Ready, Aim, Fire! BPD Firing Range, May 1936

Jesse Smart Named 2017 History Makers Honoree

We're Special! -- The MCMH Library

Exhibits

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9/11: McLean County Responds

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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Government Aid and Programs

Finding Aids

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Bloomington Sesquicentennial

District 87 Unit 5 Consolidation Campaign

School District Consolidation Campaign 1992-96

Bogart, Ron and Doris (Stevenson Items)

Bus Transit

Constitution Trail

Democratic National Convention 1984

Downtown Bloomington Redevelopment Collection

Election Authorities

Fifer-Bohrer Papers

Freedom Train

Ives, Elizabeth Buffie

James S. Ewing Speeches

Mark & Margaret Kalahar Hayes

Markowitz, Judy

McLean County Courthouse Clock

McLean County Emergency Squad

McLean County Jail Review Committee Collection

McLean County Sesquicentennial Committee

Money Creek Municipal

Normal Anti-Liquor Ordinance Petition

Reitan, Carol

Ronald Bogart – Adlai Stevenson I

Ropp, Gordon L. State Representative

Scott, Garrett

Stevenson, Adlai E II Newspaper Clippings

Stevenson, Adlai E. II

Underwood, Justice Robert C.

Uniquely Bloomington

Delphi — Bloomington Chapter

Lennon, John Brown

McLean County Chamber of Commerce

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Urban Storm Water Task Force

Voice for Choice

Wellmerling, Louis F.

World War I: State Council of Defense

Carlock Public Library

Downtown Bloomington Historical Survey

McLean County WWII Memorial

Moraine View State Recreation Area

Sister City Asahikawa

Stevenson Boyhood Home

Vladimir/Canterbury Sister City Committee

Corn on the Curb 2000

Fell Family

Gose, Carol Mishler Scrapbooks

Hamilton, Violet

Koos Family

Lincoln, Abraham Recollections and Newspaper Articles

Lincoln Statue Bicentennial Project (1975-1978)

Scott, Judge John Milton

State Farm Building

Abstracts of Title

Barbara Findley Stuart/McLean County Board Collection

Lincoln, Abraham— Miscellaneous Publications

McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection

McLean County Courthouses

William B. Price—McLean County Courthouse

World War I Collection

9/11 Collection

Irvin, Lawrence

Ewing, Thomas

Martin Luther King Jr Awards Program — Human Relation Commissions

Kinser, Betty

Political Ephemera

Cold War

Laurenti, Luellen

McLean County Government

Vietnam War

Water

Bloomington-Normal Black History Project

Lincolns in Town

McLean County Poor Farm

Davis Correspondence

Equal Rights Amendment

Scott, Sandra

Adlai Stevenson Lecture Series 1965-1981

Normal Municipal

All About Normal

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Angler’s Lake

Apollo 11 Pantagraph Run

Auth Family

Baldini, John

Bent, Horatio C.

Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA)
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Bloomington Fire Department Collection

Bloomington Municipal Collection

Stevenson, Adlai E II Miscellaneous

Bloomington Public Library Time Capsule 1977

Making a Home

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The Kickapoo

Publications

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Evolution of the Jail of McLean County, Illinois

Speakers Bureau

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Freedom, Land, and Community

McLean County Workers & Their World

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

Hellraisers & Heroines

The 'Lost Speech' Found: Abraham Lincoln and the Founding of the Illinois Republican Party

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

Videos

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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

Bloomington Sesquicentennial

District 87 Unit 5 Consolidation Campaign

School District Consolidation Campaign 1992-96

Bogart, Ron and Doris (Stevenson Items)

Bus Transit

Constitution Trail

Democratic National Convention 1984

Downtown Bloomington Redevelopment Collection

Election Authorities

Fifer-Bohrer Papers

Freedom Train

Ives, Elizabeth Buffie

James S. Ewing Speeches

Mark & Margaret Kalahar Hayes

Markowitz, Judy

McLean County Courthouse Clock

McLean County Emergency Squad

McLean County Jail Review Committee Collection

McLean County Sesquicentennial Committee

Money Creek Municipal

Normal Anti-Liquor Ordinance Petition

Reitan, Carol

Ronald Bogart – Adlai Stevenson I

Ropp, Gordon L. State Representative

Scott, Garrett

Stevenson, Adlai E II Newspaper Clippings

Stevenson, Adlai E. II

Underwood, Justice Robert C.

Uniquely Bloomington

Delphi — Bloomington Chapter

Lennon, John Brown

McLean County Chamber of Commerce

Tick, Irving Bloomington Human Relations Commission

Urban Storm Water Task Force

Voice for Choice

Wellmerling, Louis F.

World War I: State Council of Defense

Carlock Public Library

Downtown Bloomington Historical Survey

McLean County WWII Memorial

Moraine View State Recreation Area

Sister City Asahikawa

Stevenson Boyhood Home

Vladimir/Canterbury Sister City Committee

Corn on the Curb 2000

Fell Family

Gose, Carol Mishler Scrapbooks

Hamilton, Violet

Koos Family

Lincoln, Abraham Recollections and Newspaper Articles

Lincoln Statue Bicentennial Project (1975-1978)

Scott, Judge John Milton

State Farm Building

Abstracts of Title

Barbara Findley Stuart/McLean County Board Collection

Lincoln, Abraham— Miscellaneous Publications

McLean County Courthouse 4 Preservation Collection

McLean County Courthouses

William B. Price—McLean County Courthouse

World War I Collection

9/11 Collection

Irvin, Lawrence

Ewing, Thomas

Martin Luther King Jr Awards Program — Human Relation Commissions

Kinser, Betty

Political Ephemera

Cold War

Laurenti, Luellen

McLean County Government

Vietnam War

Water

Bloomington-Normal Black History Project

Lincolns in Town

McLean County Poor Farm

Davis Correspondence

Equal Rights Amendment

Scott, Sandra

Adlai Stevenson Lecture Series 1965-1981

Normal Municipal

All About Normal

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Angler’s Lake

Apollo 11 Pantagraph Run

Auth Family

Baldini, John

Bent, Horatio C.

Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA)
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Bloomington Fire Department Collection

Bloomington Municipal Collection

Stevenson, Adlai E II Miscellaneous

Bloomington Public Library Time Capsule 1977