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City of Bloomington – McLean County – $600,000 District of Peoria, Pleasure Driveway Park – Peoria County – $600,000 Village of Elmwood Park – Peoria County – $376,250
The Bloomington Parks & Recreation Department is composed of four divisions: Parks, Recreation, Golf, and the Miller Park Zoo. The department maintains over 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) of land including 44 park sites and three golf courses. [49]
The trail, which is owned by the municipalities of Bloomington and Normal, is used by bikers, inline skaters, walkers, runners and skiers, and covers approximately 37 mi (60 km). of former railways. It features the Camelback Bridge in Normal, a site on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Its official opening was May 6, 1989. [1]
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.
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
Universities and colleges in Bloomington–Normal (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Bloomington–Normal" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Parks and Recreation cast filled homes with laughs and love during its seven-season run on NBC, but since the show ended, fans have still been able to see their favorite faces from the group ...
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States.As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736.Normal is the smaller of two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is Illinois' seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area.