Indian-Americans

Members of a South Asian association in McLean County gathered Saturday to celebrate India's 77th year as a republic, featuring a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who is running for U.S. Senate from Illinois.

This is the first part of a WGLT series looking at the Asian Indian community in Bloomington-Normal. It's a rich tapestry of people with all the nuance and complexity you would expect of a culture thousands of years old.

For some children of Indian workers in Bloomington-Normal, the future is uncertain at best.Their parents came to the United States on skilled worker H1B…