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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.
Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center is a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States.. On August 5, 2017, Emily Claire Hari (known at the time as Michael Hari), Michael McWhorter, and Joe Morris of Clarence, Illinois detonated an improvised explosive near the mosque, which damaged the structure but no one was hurt, in an effort to scare Muslims into leaving the United States.
The village of Mahomet was first settled in 1832 on the banks of the Sangamon River.It was the first community to be established in modern-day Champaign County.The original village name was Middletown, possibly because it is half-way between the towns of Danville and Bloomington. [5]
The McLean County Museum of History is an AAM accredited [1] institution located in Bloomington, Illinois. It is the principal asset of the McLean County Historical Society, an Illinois nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1892 to study local history. The Museum moved into its current location in 1991.
Mohammad Mozammel Huq (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ মোজাম্মেল হক; 1860–1933) was a Bengali-language poet, novelist, [1] magistrate and educationist. [2] His writings were said to have been inspired by a " Muslim renaissance ".
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.
Eastland Mall opened on February 16, 1967, anchored by JCPenney and Sears, both of which had moved from downtown Bloomington. [1] The mall was built on the east side of town, at the southwestern corner of East Empire Street (Illinois Route 9) and Veterans Parkway (formerly U.S. Route 66, now Interstate 55 Business Loop). [1]
Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti (Arabic: محمد المختار الشنقيطي; born 1966) is a Mauritanian political activist, author, and academic.He currently works at Hamad Bin Khalifa University as an associate professor of political ethics and history of religion.