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Connect Transit, formerly Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System until 2012, [3] is the primary provider of mass transportation in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois.The system consists of 13 fixed routes, plus the Illinois State University Redbird Express, and two additional Express routes that operate on the busiest portions of the Lime and Red routes.
The Chicago Transit Authority also operates numerous bus routes in Lakeview, the busiest being those running along North Lake Shore Drive with express services to downtown Chicago, including the Loop, via North Michigan Avenue and its Magnificent Mile. Bus routes entering and leaving Lakeview are 8 Halsted, 9 Ashland, 22 Clark, 36 Broadway, 77 ...
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census showed the city had a population of 78,680, [ 5 ] making it the 13th-most populous city in Illinois and the fifth-most populous outside the Chicago metropolitan area . [ 6 ]
Lithograph of the Franklin Square Monument by Haldeman Marble Works. On April 26, 1856, David Davis, William F. Flagg, and William H. Allin donated a 590-by-330-foot parcel of land to the city of Bloomington, asking that the park be “...used as a place of public resort, pastime and recreation, for citizens and strangers forever.”
In 2022, 178,018 train passengers boarded or alighted from Amtrak trains at Uptown Station, making it the second busiest Amtrak station in Illinois behind Chicago [3] This is primarily due to the large number of passengers traveling to and from Chicago and St. Louis. In 2019 Uptown station was the 44th busiest Amtrak station in the United ...
Bloomington–Normal, officially known as the Bloomington, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Central Illinois anchored by the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.
The following summer, on July 11, 1929, a larger crowd (est 10,000) gathered at the airfield for the Central Illinois Air Derby which was billed at the time as the greatest such event in Illinois outside of Chicago. In 1931, Century Air Lines added Bloomington to its Chicago-to-St. Louis route.
Descendants of Lakeview have continued to hold an annual community reunion at the cemetery on Memorial Day for decades, a tradition dating to the 19th century. [5] The Pankey Road approach to Lakeview at the Carrier Mills city limits. Lakeview Cemetery. Deputy Royce E. Cline was the only police officer to die in the line of duty in Saline ...