Articles about Businesses

The Ashley House, Bloomington’s largest hotel from the Civil War until its fiery end in 1900, had a tumultuous history replete with fin...

Business colleges played an important but often-overlooked role in American education. For the better part of a half-century, Brown’s B...

Local and state governments often offer incentives to keep existing businesses or attract new ones. These inducements—in the form of la...

Farm silos, an iconic symbol of the Corn Belt, have long flummoxed city and suburban folk. Frustrated parents clueless as to the purpos...

Back in the 19th century when miracle pills, plasters, creams, powders and tonics promised to cure all—from mild indigestion to pancrea...

Strange thought it may seem, in the early, golden days of commercial television there was an ABC affiliate right here in Bloomington....

On the western edge of downtown, the no-frills, mom-and-pop Butler House was an old friend to the weary traveler and local resident ali...

“More from the soil, with less toil” was the promise of the Illinois Tractor Co., which for a few short years sold its Bloomington-made...

In the late 1800s, there was no better place in Bloomington to grumble about the “gov’ment,” debate the issues of the day, recount a we...

“A shopping trip takes on all of the glamour and excitement of the space age when you visit the beautiful new Eastland Shopping Center....