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So as of today I've visited two local game conventions in two consecutive weekends. Last weekend I was in Bloomington, IL for FlatCon and today I went to Springfield for a taste of I-Con . Both of these are small local conventions with attendance in maybe the hundreds. At Flat-Con the role-playing section was dominated by the RPGA, with Living Greyhawk 3.5 events winding down the campaign and Living...
The main event of my weekend was FlatCon , a little game covention in Bloomington, Illinois. In its ninth year now, FlatCon is still a new kid on the block in the local game scene. I'm still getting used to the way they run their show, but I admire the enthusiasm and energy of the organizers. Just under the deadline I submitted an OD&D session to be included on schedule and this afternoon I had the...
Bloomington, Illinois From the Pantagraph of October 2, 2008 22-year-old shot during alleged break-in charged with burglary A 22-year-old Normal man who was shot during an alleged break-in at a Bloomington apartment was charged Wednesday with one count of residential burglary. Joshua A. McGuire appeared in front of Associate Judge Rebecca Foley in a wheelchair on Wednesday afternoon on the residential...
BLOOMINGTON, IL (MARKET WIRE) State Farm Insurance(R) is empowering Latino students, teachers and administrators today to help solve the drop-out rate. Through a $3 million education grant to the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), State Farm will help NCLR in their goals to promote excellence in students, increase Latino graduation rates, and close the achievement gap nationwide. Approximately 2.9...
FlatCon in Bloomington, Illinois is next Saturday, October 4th. It's not officially on the schedule yet, but I've submitted an event for Saturday afternoon (or Saturday morning if they can't fit me in later in the day). The plan is that I'll be running my own idiotsyncratic version of OD&D for up to twelve foolhardy souls. If it doesn't get on the schedule I'll still have my OD&D and Encounter Critical...
I am currently sitting in a Bloomington , Illinois hotel room preparing to deliver a number of financial seminars over the next few days. On the way here, I spoke to my client contact who informed me that the number of attendees has doubled over the past few days. Apparently, they think I have some silver bullet that will help them avoid what will most certainly be a rocky road in the investment markets...
ISU students and members of the Bloomington-Normal community will participate in Normal's fourth annual Buddy Walk at Carden Park on Saturday. The Central Illinois Down Syndrome Organization will host the event, which is one of the group's ways of raising funds for their various programs and services.
In May of this year Greg Wallace, oldest son of Larry and Nan Wallace — long time homeschool leaders in the Decatur, Illinois area — had major emergency surgery to correct a serious Crohn’s flair-up. The pathology report on the tissues removed showed that part of his intestine which was removed was [...]
By Edith Brady-Lunny BLOOMINGTON - Construction of a controversial crude-oil pipeline through the midsection of Illinois by Enbridge Pipelines-Illinois could be delayed until 2010, according to company estimates.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has indicated that the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System may have a tighter budget to operate on this year. "Because of the new legislation that went into effect late last year, they're doing an interim contract," Melanie Overend, marketing director of B-NPTS, said.
Michael Hoomanawanui remembers what he heard about the future of Illinois football three years ago when he was being recruited out of Central Catholic High in Bloomington, Ill.
Like several other cities in Illinois, Bloomington-Normal and the surrounding towns in McLean County will have to say goodbye to local recreational and historic sites until the state finds appropriate funds. The David Davis Mansion, located on the 1000 block of East Monroe Street in Bloomington, is one of the 13 historical sites that is scheduled to close for an indefinite period of time beginning...
September 6 - Morganton, NC September 7 - Virginia Beach, VA September 12 - Cape Girardeau, MO September 13 - Bloomington, IL September 14 - South Bend, IN September 19 - Washington, PA September 20... [[ This is a short summary only. Visit the Music City Syndicate for the full story, other content, and more! ]]
As I watch the election coverage, read and listen to endless arguments about the value of third parties and/or shifting a major one to the left for a change…..I can’t help but think about how much history has been vanished from the standard-issue history books, how historical amnesia is no accidental occurence. And especially, how [...]
NORMAL, Ill. -- Area colleges and universities included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings maintained similar positions to last year's results. Bloomington-based Illinois Wesleyan University once again is considered in the top tier of U.S. liberal arts universities, among 260 similar campuses....
