Finding Aids about Environment

While Frank Aldrich was a banker by trade, he was remembered by many, locally and internationally, because of his hobbies. In his obitu...

The citizen effort to preserve Angler’s Lake, located in southeast Bloomington, began in 1979. Bloomington residents recognized the val...

Children and Elders Forest was formed in 2005 in Bloomington-Normal for charitable and educational purposes. The mission is to plant in...

The first Audubon Society in McLean County was called the Cardinal Audubon Club, organized in 1962. The John Wesley Powell Audubon Soci...

A Bloomington native, Loring C. Merwin served as publisher of the Pantagraph for over three decades. He worked at the family-owned news...

In the summer of 1939 nine women were invited to meet at the home of Mrs. Wm. (Hattie) Dickey to organize a Normal Garden Club. The pur...

ParkLands Foundation was chartered in 1967 as a private, non-profit corporation under Illinois law. The Foundation had two goals, accor...

The file contains various reports, newspaper clippings, maps, and ephemera regarding the water supply in Bloomington-Normal and McLean ...