Mourning in McLean

Lunch & Learn: Preserving and Celebrating 100 Years with COUNTRY Financial

Architect A. Richard Williams: Revisiting an International Style Master

100 Years of COUNTRY Financial: Making a Home in the Twin Cities with Bill Kemp

Lunch & Learn: Understanding the Role of an End-of-Life Doula and the Power of Death Cafes

Lunch & Learn: A Fair to Remember - The History of McLean County Fairs

Lunch & Learn: The Land of the Giants from Atlanta, Illinois with Bill Thomas

Making Insurance Interesting - Stories from State Farm with Corporate Archivist Buck Farley

Lunch & Learn: Old Homes & Historic Preservation with Dawn Peters

The Silent Killer: Dangers of Asbestos in the Workplace Panel Discussion

Lunch & Learn: Organizing for policy change for a more just and regenerative food system

2025 History Makers Honoree Reveal

Miller Park: An Evening of Stories with Bill Kemp

Lunch & Learn: Artists, Advocates, Acrobats, and More! Women Who Made McLean County History

Lunch & Learn: Oral Histories and the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project with Andrew Thomas

Lunch & Learn: Why Care about Air - BNCARE

Lunch & Learn: Christmas Past and Present at Ewing Manor

Exploring a 700-year-old Native American Village in McLean County with Dr. Logan Miller

Special Election Lunch & Learn with Dr. Andrew Hartman

Lunch & Learn: What's New at the Zoo with Jay Pratte

Recent Immigration to McLean County: A Panel Discussion Hosted in Collaboration with ISU

Lunch & Learn -- Arcadia: America's Playable Arcade Museum

A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County

In the Spotlight: Antoinette Concello presented by Maureen Brunsdale

All About Wind Turbines with Meghan Reha

Sembrando Raíces: Oral Histories of Latinos in Central Illinois

A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor

Sweet Greeks Part Two

Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland with Author Ann Flesor Beck

Creating a Sensory Garden with U of I Extension Brittnay Haag

"The Greening of the Prairie", Irish Immigration into the upper Midwest with Greg Koos

Growing up Gen X

We all Played Together: A Historical Account of African- American Musicians

BNBHP Presents: A Reunion: the Booker T. Washington Home

Lunch & Learn: Game Development with Ben Rosset and Jamie Mathy

Lunch & Learn: Bloomington's Streetcar Era with Librarian Bill Kemp

Crafting History: Embroidering Festive Felt Ornaments

Lunch & Learn: Relocating the Nativity in Song and Celebration with Adriana Ponce

No Crybabies Allowed: Book Reading and Signing with Terri Ryburn

Lunch and Learn: The Art of the Rug with Hossein Nateghpour

Untold African American Stories: Springfield's Lincoln Colored Home

The Lincoln Miracle: An Evening with Ed Achorn

Guy Fraker Lunch & Learn Q&A

Lincoln in 1859: Testing the Waters and Advancing the Cause with Guy Fraker

Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

Lunch & Learn: Introducing the 2023 Evergreen Cemetery Walk

The Politics of Labels: Latino, Latinx, Hispanic, and What Else; The view from the Heartland

Crafting History: Wonders of Weaving

Lunch & Learn: Quirky Sites in Illinois

Contested Civil Liberties in 19th Century McLean County, with Greg Koos

2023 History Makers -- Honoree Reveal

Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair

"Whiskey vs Lager Beer – Bejabers:" The Irish, the bete noir of Lincoln’s Republican Party

Echoes of Purple and Gold with Jack Keefe

Being Innovative in Bloomington-Normal

Lunch & Learn: Ecology Action Center Tree Corps

Seasonal Choral Music with Scott Ferguson, Professor of Music, the Illinois Wesleyan Director, IWU

Creating a Public Art Destination

The Puerto Rico Town Experience in Achieving Cultural District Designation

Opening Plenary: Leveraging Policy and Creating Cultural Districts to Drive Economic Success