Learn all about the college town of Bloomington Indiana
Bloomington Indiana is a college town and home to the main campus of Indiana University. I was lucky enough to spend two years there while studying to become a librarian. Bloomington or B-Town as it is affectionately called is a unique city and place. I have written this lens to help you learn more about it.Where you live in Bloomington and are looking to learn more about this city, you plan to visit Bloomington or are just curious about Bloomington, I hope you will find something useful here.
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Books all about Bloomington Indiana
The Glory of Old IU
Amazon Price: $26.56 (as of 10/11/2008)
The Indiana University School of Music: A History (Indiana)
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Bloomington Past and Present:
Amazon Price: $22.76 (as of 10/11/2008)
Photos of Bloomington Indiana
Yup we're in Bloomington, Indiana right now! Well, me and my bro. Be home Frid...
Summer in Downtown Bloomington
Am in town for a day, to speak to students and faculty at my alma mater (the J-S...
Links to Learn More about Bloomington Indiana
- Visit Bloomington
- Learn all about Bloomington and find hotels, restaurants and more.
- City of Bloomington
- The official website for the city of Bloomington.
- City of Bloomington Indiana
- Learn more about Bloomington Indiana and find hotels, services, photos and more.
- Indiana University
- Visit the home page of Indiana University in Bloomington.
Me at the famous gates of IU in Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington Indiana Poll
Unique Things about Bloomington Indiana
1. Home to the main campus of Indiana University.2. City offers a mix of city and country life.
3. Tuba Santas- a group of santas that play tuba music at Christmas time, and they are all originally from Bloomington.
4. Bloomingfoods natural food store
Watch a video of Bloomington Indiana
Bloomington Spring 2001
Downtown Bloomington, Indiana during May 2001. The video begins in my bedroom in Cambridge, Massachusetts but quickly shuffles off this quaint college town in which Adam drops by the Runcible Spoon yet winds up at a Starbucks instead.
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Learn about Bloomington from Wikipedia
Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County in the south central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 69,291 and the metropolitan population was 175,506.
Bloomington is the home to Indiana University which was established in 1820 and is attended by approximately 40,000 students and is the original and largest campus of the Indiana University system. In 1991, Thomas Gaines, a landscape artist, published a book, The Campus As a Work of Art, in which he named the Bloomington University campus one of the five most beautiful in America. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone.
Bloomington is also the home of the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, the world renowned Jacobs School of Music and Kelley School of Business, the Kinsey Institute, and The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.
Bloomington has been named a Tree City for more than 20 years. The city was the site of the Academy Award-winning movie Breaking Away, featuring a reenactment of Indiana University's annual bicycle race Little 500. Bloomington is also famous for its rock quarries, also featured in Breaking Away, which residents have been known to use as swimming holes (although nowadays would-be swimmers may have to deal with security officers issuing citations, towing their cars and (sometimes dangerously) contaminated waters at the quarries).
Bloomington has sister-city relationships with Posoltega, Nicaragua, Santa Clara, Cuba, and Luchou Township, Taiwan.
Restaurants in Bloomington Indiana
Here's what Yelpers have to say about Food in 47401
- Oliver Winery (Bloomington)
- "They have great Mead....yes the medival drink. And yes I'm kidding, it tastes horrid!" more
- Kroger (Bloomington)
- "Currently this place is a big construction project. When the construction is finished go ahead and add a 4th star." more
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