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Ellen Ferguson was a champion of women and women's suffrage. She made Bloomington-Normal her home in the 1870s.
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Sirihaasa Nallamothu has created the 20-Year Project that will see memories of the pandemic sealed in a time capsule until 2042.
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A former health care facility in Normal is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Lucinda McCray is a former professor at Illinois State University and author of multiple books, including "Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County 1830-1995."
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Bloomington-Normal has a long and distinguished history of business entrepreneurship. One less than distinguished, but very successful, business, had a continent-wide spread in the late 1800s.
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Bloomington-Normal has a long and distinguished history of business entrepreneurship. One less than distinguished, but very successful, business, had a continent-wide spread in the late 1800s.
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The last serious history of McLean County came out in 1908. That's about to change with the book, “Freedom, Land, And Community: A History of McLean County, Illinois 1730 to 1900.” The author is Greg Koos, the retired director of the McLean County Museum of History.
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A 19th century Bloomington doctor was a respected physician who was accused of stealing corpses.
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A 19th century Bloomington doctor was a respected physician who was accused of stealing corpses.
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Efforts are underway to create a museum in Woodford County dedicated to the first Black man in Illinois to cast a ballot after the ratification of the 15th Amendment.