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The holiday season often means hectic times for those traveling by air. Commercial air service to Bloomington began on Nov. 6, 1950 wit...

The period from Wednesday through Sunday around Thanksgiving is usually the busiest travel time of the year in the U.S. Fortunately for...

The first Bloomington Airport was actually located several miles north of Normal and featured a turf landing field. This October 1, 193...

An estimated 200 area residents were on hand at the Municipal Airport (now Central Illinois Regional Airport) to celebrate the start of...

The McLean County chapter of Flying Farmers offered free airplane rides to some 70 moms and dads on Father’s Day, June 21, 1953. Mother...

This wonderful aerial photograph of Heyworth High School dates to January 23, 1933. The view is looking east-northeast into town.In man...

Central Illinois is dotted with the tiniest of communities that owe their existence to the railroad boom of the nineteenth century. Man...

The Village of Carlock, established in 1888, is seen here in an undated but circa 1930 aerial. The view is northwest. “A” shows the Lak...

Back during the early years of the Cold War the fuselage of a U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress was put on display on the McLean County...

This aerial view of Bloomington Municipal Airport (now Central Illinois Regional Airport, or CIRA) looks northwest and shows the main h...

On the evening of November 3, 1926, Charles Lindbergh jumped out of his U.S. airmail biplane somewhere in the skies far above McLean Co...

The McLean County Museum of History’s largest artifact, the Tilbury Flash racing plane, has officially arrived at the Central Illinois ...

The most recent Sunday Pantagraph “Page from Our Past” installment examined the fascinating history of Chenoa airport, which opened in ...

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