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Voters backed establishment of Miller Park in 1887 - Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois newspaper) Miller Park Collection , McLean County Museum of History 40°28′04″N 89°00′17″W / 40.46778°N 89.00472°W / 40.46778; -89
Lithograph of the Franklin Square Monument by Haldeman Marble Works. On April 26, 1856, David Davis, William F. Flagg, and William H. Allin donated a 590-by-330-foot parcel of land to the city of Bloomington, asking that the park be “...used as a place of public resort, pastime and recreation, for citizens and strangers forever.”
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The zoo was started when a circus lion cub ended up on James T. Miller's farm around 1900, and was eventually given to the city of Bloomington. [3] The lion, later named "Big Jim", died on March 26, 1912. After Big Jim's death, funds were raised to construct the Koetthoefer Animal Building by Bloomington architect Arthur L. Pillsbury.
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.The 2020 census showed the city had a population of 78,680, [5] making it the 13th-most populous city in Illinois and the fifth-most populous outside the Chicago metropolitan area. [6]
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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.