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With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
In mid-December 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, local officials settled on a 164-acre site east of Bloomington along Illinois 9 where the site of a new permanent airfield would be situated. Originally known as the Bloomington Municipal Airport, it was founded in 1946 by local businessman and aviation enthusiast Charles G. Shafer.
In February 1998, school officials announced plans to construct a new school building in east or southeast Bloomington after renovation of the current building was deemed too expensive. [44] [47] That July, the pastors' board announced fifteen acres of Deneen family farmland in east Bloomington were reserved for a new school building. [48]
Bloomington School District 87, often shortened to District 87, is a school district in Bloomington, Illinois. The district has six elementary schools, a junior high school, and a high school as well as a vocational school and an early education (PreK) school. In the 2014–2015 school year District 87 had 5615 total students and 703 employees.
In 1997, the Eastview Christian Church preschool was taken over and renamed "Cornerstone Christian Academy of McLean County, Inc.” by founders Becky Shamess and April Kinzinger. In 1998, Cornerstone moved to Grace United Methodist Church in Bloomington, where it accepted students from preschool through 4th grade.
Downtown Bloomington and the McLean County Courthouse & Square are seen in this 1914 image. The McLean County Courthouse housed the McLean County Circuit Court from 1903 to 1976. The original construction was completed in 1868 at a cost of $461,640. [2] On June 19, 1900, a fire destroyed many of the buildings in the square and the courthouse.
From 1935 to 2018, the newspaper operated from a 65,000-square-foot building at 301 W. Washington St. [10] [11] Then-Publisher Julie Bechtel announced in November 2017 that the business would move two blocks east to a new home at 205 N. Main St., just across from the McLean County Museum of History in the heart of downtown Bloomington.
Bloomington–Normal, officially known as the Bloomington, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Central Illinois anchored by the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.