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The Pantagraph. The Pantagraph is a daily newspaper that serves Bloomington–Normal, Illinois, along with 60 communities and eight counties in the Central Illinois area. Its headquarters are in Bloomington and it is owned by Lee Enterprises. The name is derived from the Greek words "panta" and "grapho," which has a combined meaning of "write ...
February 6, 1973. The McLean County Courthouse and Square is located in downtown Bloomington, Illinois. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places and encompasses the old McLean County Courthouse and the courthouse-facing sides of three downtown blocks. All 4 floors of the building are now occupied by the McLean County Museum of ...
Lincoln's " Lost Speech " was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the Bloomington Convention on May 29, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois. Traditionally regarded as lost because it was so engaging that reporters neglected to take notes, the speech is believed to have been an impassioned condemnation of slavery.
The 1917 Bloomington Streetcar Strike was a labor dispute starting on May 28, 1917 [4] [2] [5] [α] when ATU Local 752 called a strike for union recognition, increased pay, and a shortened workday. Facing a strike, Bloomington & Normal Street Railway & Light offered a 20¢ a day increase before the strike but refused to give union recognition ...
Website. www.bloomingtonil.gov. 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] It is adjacent to the town of Normal, and ...
Franklin Square (Bloomington, Illinois) Coordinates: 40°29′10″N 88°59′24″W. Franklin Square. U.S. National Register of Historic Places. U.S. Historic district. Franklin Park, the heart of the historic district. Location. 300 and 400 blocks of E. Chestnut and E. Walnut Streets, 900 block of N. Prairie and N. McLean Streets, Bloomington ...
Political party. Republican. Signature. Joseph Wilson Fifer (October 28, 1840 – August 6, 1938) was the 19th governor of Illinois, serving from 1889 to 1893. He also served as a member of the Illinois Senate from 1881 to 1883. [1] Fifer was born at Staunton, Virginia on October 28, 1840. At the age of 16, in 1856, he moved with his family to ...
Paul Scott Mowrer was born in Bloomington, Illinois on July 14, 1887. [1] He studied at the University of Michigan and began his newspaper career in 1905 as a reporter in Chicago. [2] He was a correspondent at the front during the First Balkan War and again in the War in Europe from 1914 to 1918. In 1921 he acted as special correspondent of the ...